When Terressa Morse was born on 20 October 1813, in Clifford Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William Amos Morse, was 26 and her mother, Hannah Finn, was 21. She married William Erskine Bridges on 12 February 1835, in Franklin, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1849. She died on 18 March 1882, in Sevier, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Joseph Cemetery, Joseph, Sevier, Utah, United States.
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Illinois is the 21st state.
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."
Welsh and English: variant of Morris .
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames, especially Moses . Compare Morris .
History: Samuel Morse (1791–1872), inventor of the electric telegraph andof Morse code, was a direct descendant of Anthony Morse of Wiltshire,England, who had emigrated to MA in 1635.
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