Brief Life History of Willard William
When Willard William Boden was born on 12 September 1857, in Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, James Boden, was 34 and his mother, Annorah Coleman, was 29. He married Dicey Bernettie Wakley on 17 January 1878, in Box Elder, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He immigrated to United States in 1868 and lived in Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales in 1861 and Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 17 July 1932, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Dayton Cemetery, Dayton, Franklin, Idaho, United States.
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- Willard Boden, Sr, Sr, "United States Census, 1930"
- Willard Boden, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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1859 · Logan is Founded
"\""During the end of April, David Reese and his company settled the land north of the Logan River. That area was the second permanent settlement in Cache Valley and the future location of Logan. The city's boundary was drawn by Logan's first bishop, Jesse W. Fox, a government engineer. The name \""\""Logan\""\"" comes from a trapper that used to frequent the area before the pioneers came to the valley.\"""
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1877 · Logan's First Stake is Formed
Eighteen years after the first ward was established and the population of the valley increased exponentially, the first Stake was established.
Name Meaning
North German: patronymic from the personal name Bode .
German: topographic name for someone living in a valley bottom or the low-lying area of a field, Middle High German boden ‘ground, bottom’. Compare English Bottom .
Swedish (Bodén): ornamental or habitational name, possibly from bod ‘small hut’ or from a placename containing this element; the adjectival suffix -én is a derivative of Latin -enius ‘relating to’. Compare Bodin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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