Brief Life History of Abraham
When Abraham Durfee was born on 14 November 1826, in Amboy, Oswego, New York, United States, his father, Edmund Durfee Sr, was 38 and his mother, Magdalena Pickle, was 38. He married Ursula Curtis about 1846, in Carterville, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Oxford, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1880 and Oxford, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1853. He died on 14 December 1905, in Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States, at the age of 79.
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- Abm Durphy, "United States Census, 1860"
- 1826 LDS Church Membership Birth of Abraham Durfee
- 1853 LDS Sealing of prior Marriage of Abraham Durfee & Ursula Curtis
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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Historical Boundaries: 1846: Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Iowa, United States 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
Name Meaning
Altered form of French Durfé: habitational name, with fused preposition d(e) ‘from’, for someone from Urfé in Loire. The surname Durfé is virtually non-existing in France.
History: The name was brought to England by Huguenot refugees in the 16th century. Thomas Durfee, the ancestor of the Durfee family in America, was born in 1643 and came to Providence, RI, in 1660.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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