Sophia Coleman

Brief Life History of Sophia

When Sophia Coleman was born on 14 July 1792, in Genoa, Cayuga, New York, United States, her father, Absalom H. Coleman, was 32 and her mother, Mary Gale, was 31. She married Uzziel Stevens about 1818, in Tompkins, New York, United States. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Utah, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 16 December 1860, in Washington, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Washington City Cemetery, Washington, Washington, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Aldridge III
1787–1863
Sophia Coleman
1792–1860
Marriage: 1838

Sources (16)

  • Sophia Aldridge, "United States, Census, 1860"
  • Sophia Aldridge, "BillionGraves Index"
  • Sophia Coleman, "Illinois, Hancock County, Nauvoo Community Project, 1839-1846 (BYU Center for Family History and Genealogy)"

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World Events (8)

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

1799

Historical Boundaries 1799: Cayuga, New York, United States

1812

War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

Name Meaning

Irish and English: from the Middle English personal name Col(e)man, Old Irish Colmán, earlier Columbán, adopted as Old Norse Kalman. It was introduced into Cumbria, Westmorland, and Yorkshire by Norwegians from Ireland and probably spread widely across England. Ó Colmáin (‘descendant of Colmán’) was the name of an Irish missionary to Europe, also known as Saint Columban(us) (c. 540–615), who founded the monastery of Bobbio in northern Italy in 614. Columbanus is formally a derivative of the Latin for ‘dove’, seen in the name of the 6th-century missionary known in English as Saint Columba (521–597), who converted the Picts to Christianity. This surname is also very common among African Americans.

Irish: from Mac Colmáin or Ó Colmáin ‘son (or descendant) of Colmán’.

Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Kalman or Kolman .

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

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