Brief Life History of George Wilson
When George Wilson Bruce was born on 27 December 1868, in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James Barfield Bruce Jr, was 27 and his mother, Isabella Wilson, was 27. He married Helen Neil on 20 October 1888, in Uinta, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Smoot, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States for about 10 years and Election District 11, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States in 1930. He died on 20 September 1935, in Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Afton Cemetery, Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States.
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- George Wilson Bruce, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
- George Wilson Bruce, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- George Wilson Bruce, "Wyoming Marriages, 1869-1923"
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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.
1872
Historical Boundaries - 1872: Uinta, Wyoming Territory, United States; 1890: Unita, Wyoming, United States
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a place in Normandy, probably from Brix (La Manche).
Altered form of French Brousse .
History: The son of the Domesday baron, a friend of David I of Scotland, was granted by him the Lordship of Annandale in 1124, and his second son Robert became the founder of the Scottish house of Bruce. — This surname (see 2 above) is listed along with its original form Brousse in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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