Fannie Spafford

Brief Life History of Fannie

When Fannie Spafford was born on 5 February 1802, in Sharon, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Amos Spofford, was 36 and her mother, Mary Taggart, was 38. She married Asahel Howe on 25 December 1823, in Wakefield, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 2 April 1846, in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 44.

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Family Time Line

Asahel Howe
1802–1844
Fannie Spafford
1802–1846
Marriage: 25 December 1823
Samuel Milton Howe
1824–1880
Fanny Jane Howe
1826–1883
Susan Elvira Howe
1828–1899
Mary A. Howe
1832–1834
Amos A. Howe
1835–1835
Louisa Jane HOWE
1836–1844

Sources (15)

  • Fanny Howe im Eintrag für Samuel Howe, "New Hampshire Births and Christenings, 1714-1904"
  • Fanny Spafford, "New Hampshire, Marriages, 1720-1920"
  • Fanny Howe in entry for Franklin G. Crowell and Fanny J. Adams, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"

World Events (8)

1803

France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital

In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 

1818

Illinois is the 21st state.

Name Meaning

English (Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire):

habitational name usually from Spalford (Nottinghamshire). The placename may derive from Old English Spaldas, the name of an Anglian tribe who settled chiefly in the fen-lands of Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, or from spald ‘ditch, trench’ + ford ‘ford’.

variant of Spofforth, a habitational name from Spofforth (Yorkshire), probably from Old English spot ‘small piece, plot of land’ + ford ‘ford’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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