When Elizabeth Eckersley was born on 11 July 1854, in Middleton by Oldham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph T. Eckersley, was 45 and her mother, Alice Barlow Hulme, was 38. She married William Frederick Rigby on 2 April 1876, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Bradford St James, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871 and Newton, Cache, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 10 August 1918, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Newton, Cache, Utah, United States.
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"\""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.\"""
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English (Lancashire): habitational name from Eckersley, a lost place in the parish of Leigh, near Wigan, Lancashire, probably so named from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Ecgheard (see Eckert ) or Ecghere + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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Possible Related NamesWe have all heard the stories of the wives of William F. Rigby and the hardships they endured: the lack of all things we take for granted today. Their homes were without plumbing and heating, they h …
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