Ellen Ellender Jones

Brief Life History of Ellen Ellender

When Ellen Ellender Jones was born about 1827, in New Hope, Hawkins, Tennessee, United States, her father, Elijah James Jones, was 45 and her mother, Nancy Harmon, was 32. She married John L Morrison before 1844, in Hawkins, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died after 1880, in Hawkins, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

John L Morrison
1824–1898
Ellen Ellender Jones
about 1827–1880
Elijah Morrison
1844–1937
Sarah Morrison
about 1846–
John Morrison
about 1852–
Eleanor Morrison
about 1856–
Nellie Morrison
about 1856–
Nancy Morrison
1851–1910

Sources (4)

  • Ellen Morrisen in household of John Morrisen, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Ellen Ellender Jones - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Ellen Jones
  • Ellen Morrison in household of James Lawson, "United States Census, 1880"

World Events (2)

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.

1835 · The Hermitage is Built

The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.

Name Meaning

English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.

English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.

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

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