Brief Life History of Miles Park
When Miles Park Romney was born on 18 August 1843, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Miles Romney, was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth Gaskell, was 34. He married Hannah Hood Hill on 10 May 1862, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1862 and St. George, Washington, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 26 February 1904, in Colonia Dublán, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, at the age of 60, and was buried in Dublan Memorial Cemetery, Colonia Dublán, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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- Miles P Ramely, "United States Census, 1870"
- 1843 Illnois Birth of Miles Park Romney, "Illinois, Hancock County, Nauvoo Community Project, 1839-1846 (BYU Center for Family History and Genealogy)"
- 1877 Utah St George Temple Marriage of Miles Park Romney & Annie Marie Woodbury
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1844
Santa Anna forced into exile.
1845 · Oh My Father
"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."
1861
Moratorium on foreign debt payments. Tripartite agreement for intervention signed by Britain, France, and Spain.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Romney (Kent), from an uncertain first element (perhaps an Old English personal name Rūmen) + Old English ēa ‘river, stream’. Compare Rye 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Autobiography of Hannah Hood Hill
AUTOBIOGRAPHY HANNAH HOOD HILL ROMNEY (Hannah H. Hill is the daughter of Archibald N. Hill and Isabel Hood Hill, born in Canada near Toronto, July 9, 1842. This history was written by her in her eight …
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