Brief Life History of Samuel Brown
When Samuel Brown Church was born on 22 May 1836, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William Warren Church, was 31 and his mother, Jane Blair Irwin, was 31. He married Katherine Alvina Barber on 25 April 1868. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Fairbury, Indian Grove Township, Livingston, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 25 March 1923, in Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Brimfield Township Cemetery, Brimfield, Peoria, Illinois, United States.
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Sources (7)
- Samuel Church, "United States Census, 1860"
- Samuel P. Church, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Samuel Church, "Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935"
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1843
Historical Boundaries: 1843: Peoria, Illinois, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name mostly found in southern and midland England, for someone who lived near a church, or possibly an occupational name for someone who worked at a church, such as a verger or sexton, from Middle English chirche ‘church’. The word comes from Old English cyrice, ultimately from medieval Greek kyrikon, for earlier kyriakōn (dōma) ‘(house) of the Lord’, from kyrios ‘lord’. Compare Kirk .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Kirch .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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