Brief Life History of Florence Caroline
When Florence Caroline Grant was born on 11 May 1851, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Joshua Frederick Grant, was 32 and her mother, Louisa Marie Golay, was 24. She married George Thomas Odell on 11 May 1871, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1880 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 22 November 1922, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Florence Grant in household of Geo D Grant, "United States Census, 1860"
- Florence Carline Odell, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
- Florence Grant in entry for Thomas George Odell, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
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1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Irish, English, and especially Scottish (of Norman origin): nickname from Anglo-Norman French graund, graunt ‘tall, large’ (Old French grand, grant, from Latin grandis), given either to a person of remarkable size, or else in a relative way to distinguish two bearers of the same personal name, often representatives of different generations within the same family.
English: from the rare Middle English (and Old English) personal name Grante or Grente.
Irish: in Ireland this is usually the Norman Scottish name (see 1 above), but it was also adopted for Irish Mag Raighne, see Graney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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