Brief Life History of Mary Etta
When Mary Etta Coray was born on 31 January 1827, in Providence, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Silas Coray, was 38 and her mother, Mary Stephens, was 34. She married Samuel Goforth Henderson Jr on 30 January 1844, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 2 June 1868, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Calvary Cemetery (Defunct), San Francisco, California, United States.
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- 1850 United States Federal Census
- Marietta Corey, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- Mary Smith, "California Deaths and Burials, 1776-2000"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1830 · The Oregon Trail
Many people started their 2,170-mile West trek to settle the land found by Louis and Clark. They used large-wheeled wagons to pack most of their belongings and were guided by trails that were made by the previous trappers and traders who walked the area. Over time the trail needed annual improvements to make the trip faster and safer. Most of Interstate 80 and 84 cover most of the ground that was the original trail.
1839 · From Swamp to Beautiful Place
By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places in northern England. Those in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire are named with the Old Norse personal name Kori (see Cory ) + Old Norse býr ‘farm, settlement’, whereas the one in Cumbria has as its first element the Old Irish personal name Corc.
French: nickname from a diminutive of corb ‘crow’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Mary Etta Coray Henderson Smith (aka Mary Ettie V. Smith)
In 1842 Mary Coray lived in Nauvoo's First Civil Ward, which consisted of households north of Knight Street and west of Wells Street. Though the 1842 census did not identify exact addresses, her famil …
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