Abigail Aurora Bingham

Brief Life History of Abigail Aurora

When Abigail Aurora Bingham was born on 19 August 1848, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Jeremiah Bingham III, was 42 and her mother, Sarah Keele, was 28. She married Russell Thomas Kelley on 1 March 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Burrville Election Precinct, Sevier, Utah, United States in 1900 and Groveland, Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1920. She died on 23 May 1927, in Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Groveland Cemetery, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Russell Thomas Kelley
1826–1915
Abigail Aurora Bingham
1848–1927
Marriage: 1 March 1869
Jeremiah Augustus Kelley
1869–1871
Sarah Melissa Kelley
1871–1904
Raymond Delbert Kelley
1873–1928
Aaron Alfred Kelley
1876–1881
Susan Abigail Kelley
1879–1937

Sources (28)

  • Abigala Bingham Kelley in household of Russell Samuel Kelley, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
  • Payson Ward: Payson. Baptism Registers 1832–1889, Religious Membership Records 1832–1889, Baby Blessing Records 1855–1859, Religious Marriage Records 1859
  • Abigail Kelley, "Idaho, Death Certificates, 1911-1937"

World Events (8)

1850

Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English (Dorset) and Irish (County Mayo): habitational name from Bingham (Nottinghamshire). The placename is probably from an Old English folk-name Bynningas (‘the people associated with a man named Bynna’), or possibly from an unattested Old English word bing ‘a kettle-shaped hollow’, + Old English hām ‘homestead’.

Irish (Ulster, of Scottish origin): altered form of Bigham .

American shortened and altered form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames such as Bingenheimer .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Story Highlight

Memories of Abigail by a granddaughter of Russell Thomas Kelley - Mary A Marble Hermansen

Abigail was a very pleasant person. At a family reunion held in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho in 1918, she said she had a problem that she would like to have solved for the next reunion. She was the relat …

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