Brief Life History of Florell Jane
When Florell Jane Currier was born about 1846, in Erie, New York, United States, her father, Erdix Tinney Currier, was 28 and her mother, Laura Amelia Goodspeed, was 25. She married Franklin Safford Hanks on 1 September 1867, in Bremer, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Kaneville, Kane, Illinois, United States in 1850 and Marshall, Lyon, Minnesota, United States for about 10 years. She died on 14 June 1931, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa, United States.
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- Florell Hanks in household of Franklyn S Hanks, "United States Census, 1920"
- Florell J. Carrier, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Florell Jane Hanks, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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World Events (8)
about 1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Kane, Illinois, United States
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a person who dressed leather after it was tanned, from Middle English curr(e)iour (Old French conreeur ‘currier’).
Americanized form of French Caillé (see Caille 3) and Carrière (see Carriere ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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