Brief Life History of Lucy Jane
When Lucy Jane Leonard was born on 9 October 1825, in Columbia Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Lyman Leonard, was 32 and her mother, Abigail Calkins, was 30. She married Moses Thurston about 1846, in Florence, Douglas, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1847 and lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 50 years. She died on 12 January 1911, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Lucy Thirstain in household of Moses Thirstain, "United States Census, 1870"
- Lucy Jane Thurston, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- Lucy Jane Thurston Kinney, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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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.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States* 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States *Renamed Salt Lake in 1868
Name Meaning
English; French (Léonard); Walloon (mainly Léonard): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements leo ‘lion’ (a late addition to the vocabulary of ancient Germanic name elements, taken from Latin) + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’, which was taken to England by the Normans. A Christian saint of this name, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century, but about whom nothing is known except for a largely fictional life dating from half a millennium later, was popular throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages and was regarded as the patron of peasants and horses. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Leonardo , Polish, Slovenian, etc. Lenart or Lenard , and probably also their derivatives. Compare Larned , Learned , and Yenor .
Irish (Fermanagh): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Fhionáin or of Langan .
German: variant of Leonhard , cognate with 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Lucy Jane Leonard Thurston Hill Kinney
“Lucy J. Leonard,” Patriarchal Blessing Index, 1833–1971 (closed to research), CHL. 1880 U.S. census, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, ED 43, p. 37, Lucy J. Hill, NARA. 1910 U.S. census …
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