Brief Life History of Emma Beck
When Emma Beck Evans was born on 12 January 1840, in Payson, Adams, Illinois, United States, her father, David Evans, was 35 and her mother, Mary Beck, was 35. She married Prime Thornton Coleman on 10 November 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1850 and Glendale, Kane, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 11 June 1913, in Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Thatcher Cemetery, Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States.
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- Emma B Coleman, "United States Census, 1910"
- Birth, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Records of Membership
- Emma Evans, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
Name Meaning
Welsh: derivative of Evan , from Efan, Ifan, medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes, the source of English John), dating from c. 1500, with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John, and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Incidents from her life by Joseph Neal Heywood Jr.
DICTATION FROM JOSEPH NEAL HEYWOOD, GRANDSON OF EMMA B. EVANS COLEMAN, 15 March 1966 (This dictation and its title are preceded by the following note: “Genealogical records show that the name of Emm …
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