Brief Life History of Phoebe Delphi
When Phoebe Delphi Simpson was born on 10 August 1805, in Caswell, North Carolina, United States, her father, Moses Sanford Simpson, was 21 and her mother, Delphia Florence, was 18. She married James Emett on 13 April 1823, in Boone, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Morgan, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 14 November 1883, in Eden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Huntsville Cemetery, Huntsville, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Phebe Porter in household of Sanford Porter, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Phebe Delphia Simpson - birth: 10 August 1805; Caswell, North Carolina, United States
- Phebe Simpson, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1825
Historical Boundaries: 1825: Hancock, Illinois, United States
1827
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
Name Meaning
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.
English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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