Brief Life History of Emma Celestine
When Emma Celestine Kelsey was born on 23 November 1848, in Madison, Jefferson, Indiana, United States, her father, Eli Brazee Kelsey Sr., was 29 and her mother, Letitia Sheets, was 31. She married Alexander Muirbrook II on 4 March 1865, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870 and Stockton, Tooele, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 16 February 1887, in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Tooele City Cemetery, Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States.
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- Emma Mureprook in household of Alexander Mureprook, "United States Census, 1870"
- Emma Celestine Kelsey Muirbrook, "Find A Grave Index"
- Emma Kelsey in entry for Mildred May Muirbrook Ewing, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States* 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States *Renamed Salt Lake in 1868
1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from North or South Kelsey in Lincolnshire, so named from an uncertain initial element (perhaps an Old English personal name with genitive -es) + Old English ēg ‘island’.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Gelzer.
History: William Kelsey was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Muirbrook, Emma Celestine 1866
Emma Celestine was born January 17, 1866 while her parents lived halfway between Tooele and Salt Lake City. She carries the same name as her mother Emma Celestine Kelsey. Her father a native of Sc …
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