Brief Life History of Emma Smith
When Emma Smith Foy was born on 23 July 1842, in Warsaw, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Thomas Birk Foy, was 39 and her mother, Catherine Rebecca Fink, was 32. She married Isaac Newton Goodale on 19 April 1857, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 4 August 1869, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Emma S Goodale in household of Newton Goodale, "United States Census, 1860"
- Emma Goodale, "BillionGraves Index"
- Emma in entry for Elizh Goodale, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1846
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Weber, Utah, United States
Name Meaning
Irish: variant of Fahey .
Irish: variant of Fee .
French: from the medieval female personal name Foy, which is from Old French foi (from Latin fides) ‘faith’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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