Catherine Rebecca Foy

Brief Life History of Catherine Rebecca

When Catherine Rebecca Foy was born on 28 March 1848, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Thomas Birk Foy, was 45 and her mother, Catherine Rebecca Fink, was 38. She married Jehu Thomas Blackburn Sr. on 4 November 1866, in Minersville, Beaver, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Wellington, Carbon, Utah, United States in 1910 and Carbon, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 2 December 1912, in Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Wellington City Cemetery, Wellington, Carbon, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Jehu Thomas Blackburn Sr.
1848–1931
Catherine Rebecca Foy
1848–1912
Marriage: 4 November 1866
Jehu Thomas Blackburn Jr
1867–1944
Ephraim Blackburn
1868–1944
Adolphus Blackburn
1870–1872
Frederick Blackburn
1872–1956
Catherine Julia Ann Blackburn
1874–1967
Nellie Elizabeth Blackburn
1876–1942
Manasseh Julius Blackburn
1878–1985
William Sheridan Blackburn
1882–1898
Charles Theodore Blackburn
1884–1977
Theron Blackburn
1887–1890
Leslie Blackburn
1891–1981

Sources (44)

  • Catherine Blackburn, "United States Census, 1910"
  • U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
  • Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961

World Events (8)

1863

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

1863

Historical Boundaries: 1863: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1865: Sevier, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sevier, Utah, United States

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Name Meaning

Irish: variant of Fahey .

Irish: variant of Fee .

French: from the medieval female personal name Foy, which is from Old French foi (from Latin fides) ‘faith’.

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

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CATHERINE REBECCA FOY by Leslie Tuttle Foy. 2013. Catherine Rebecca Foy was the eighth child of Thomas Birk Foy and Catherine Fink Foy. She was born on March 28, 1848 in the general area known to …

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