Brief Life History of Dorcas Searcy
When Dorcas Searcy Bleazard was born on 24 September 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, John Hopwood Bleazard, was 42 and her mother, Sarah Searcy, was 30. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 22 April 1859, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 13, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Dorcas Blezard in household of John H Blezard, "United States Census, 1850"
- Dorcus Blazzard, "Utah, Salt Lake County Deaths"
- Dorcas Blazzard, "Utah, Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, 1847-1976"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846 · First Nauvoo Temple Dedicated
On May 1-3, 1846, the Nauvoo Illinois Temple was fully dedicated. It was the second temple that had been built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first temple with an angel Moroni on top, in the case of this temple it also doubled as a weather vane. Before the saints left Nauvoo they gathered in great numbers to go through.
1850 · Tornado Finishes off the Temple
On May 27, 1850, a tornado came through Nauvoo and took the remaining outer walls of the temple. It was the most frightful thing the city had witnessed. Not just a tornado but also lightening, thunder, wind, hail and rain assailed the spot. Over time what was not destroyed by the storm crumbled until only a small amount was left.
Name Meaning
English: perhaps a variant of Blessed, from Middle English iblescede ‘blessed, happy, fortunate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Sarah Searcy Miller Blazzard Pectol, memorial in findagrave.com
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=30293208 Birth: Mar. 15, 1815 Rutherford County North Carolina, USA Death: Mar. 18, 1889 Saint George Washington County Utah, USA Daughter Robe …
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