Monthly Archives: September 2020

Mary Ann Turley Cook renounces allegiance to the Queen, 1895

Posted on September 29, 2020 by Ann Laemmlen Lewis

by Mary Ann Clements This year (2020) marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote in the United States. It’s also the 150th anniversary of the first woman to vote in Utah. We know … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Degen Bushman’s Errands of Mercy: Midwife to 357 Babies in Lehi

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Ann Laemmlen Lewis

Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 6, p.485-486 Elizabeth Degen Bushman was born September 12, 1802, in Holstein, Basselland, Switzerland. Her father was John Casper Degen. Her mother died in childbirth when Elizabeth was four years of age and a year later … Continue reading →

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Ernestina Friedericka Rappolt Laemmlen b. 9 September 1764

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Ann Laemmlen Lewis

On the 9th of September 1764, my 4th Great-grandmother, Ernestina Friederika Rappolt Laemmlen was born in Brackenheim. She was the 4th of 9 children born to Georg Friedrich Rappolt and Maria Magdalena Godelmann of Brackenheim. On 20 September 1798 she … Continue reading →

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