Polly Estella SMITH

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18 April 1853 , Farmington, Davis, Utah Territory

Died

12 December 1882 , Farmington, Davis, Utah Territory

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Born: 18 April 1853 in Farmington, Davis, Utah Territory

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Polly Estella married Jacob Moroni SECRIST 13 September 1869 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jacob Moroni SECRIST was born 15 August 1850 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Jacob Moroni died 5 November 1906 in Garland, Box Elder, Utah, USA. Jacob Moroni was the child of Jacob Foutz SECRIST and Ann Eliza LOGAN.

Polly Estella SMITH died 12 December 1882 in Farmington, Davis, Utah Territory.
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Jacob Moroni SECRIST
Marriage date: 13 September 1869
Marriage place: Salt Lake City, Utah Territory
Jacob Moroni SECRIST was the child of Jacob Foutz SECRIST and Ann Eliza LOGAN

Children of Jacob Moroni SECRIST and Polly Estella SMITH

Thomas Edwin SECRIST

Born: 6 May 1872, Farmington, Davis, Utah Territory
Died: 7 June 1942, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, USA

Married: Lillian Blanche WOOD 23 August 1888

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Birth — 1853
18 April 1853
Farmington, Davis, Utah Territory

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - James Buchanan becomes President of the United States

1857 - March 6 – Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Blacks are not citizens and slaves can not sue for freedom, driving the country further towards the American Civil War.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1861 - February 8 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America are formed, comprising the first six break-away states.

1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States

1863 - January 1 - President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves.

1863 - October 3 – President Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving day to be celebrated the final Thursday in November in the United States

1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

April 14, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next day. Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States.

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 Marriage / Partner
Polly Estella SMITH and Jacob Moroni SECRIST 13 September 1869, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

She was 16 years old.

1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President of the United States

1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.

1872 Birth of Child
Thomas Edwin SECRIST was born 6 May 1872, Farmington, Davis, Utah, USA

Polly Estella was 19 years old.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President of the United States

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.

1881 - March 4 - James A. Garfield becomes President of the United States

1881 - July 2 - James A. Garfield was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 am on Saturday, July 2, 1881. He died in Elberon, New Jersey, two months later on September 19, 1881. The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as president. Charles J. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield's murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting. Chester Arthur becomes President of the United States.

Death — 1882
12 December 1882
Farmington, Davis, Utah Territory
She died at the age of 29.

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Utah originates from an Apache Indian word (yuttahih), which means people of the mountains. (statesymbolsusa.org)

January 14, 1896 - Utah becomes 45th U.S. state

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