Brief Life History of Susan Eliza
When Susan Eliza Gee was born on 31 January 1828, in Rome, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, her father, Salmon Gee, was 35 and her mother, Sarah Watson Crane, was 33. She married Windsor Palmer Lyon in 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 2 August 1860, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 32.
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- Susan E Ladington in household of Elam Ladington, "United States Census, 1860"
- Obituary, Susan Eliza Gee Ludington
- Sarah in entry for Ellen S Lincoln, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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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.
1832 · Black Hawk War
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.
1839 · From Swamp to Beautiful Place
By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
Name Meaning
Irish: pronounced originally with a hard /g/, a shortened form of McGee , Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Aodha ‘son of Aodh’ (see McCoy ).
English: pronounced with a soft g, /dʒ/; generally a variant of Jay .
French (Gée): habitational name from any of several places called Gée or Gé, for example in Maine-et-Loire, derived from the Gallo-Roman domain name Gaiacum. Compare Ge .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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