Harriet Spangler

1819–1874 (Age 55)
Warrington Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States

The Life of Harriet

When Harriet Spangler was born in 1819, in Warrington Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Peter Spangler, was 30 and her mother, Susannah Maish, was 19. She married Ephraim Shelley about 1841, in Warrington Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in South Middleton Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 11 April 1874, at the age of 55, and was buried in Boiling Springs, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ephraim Shelley
1816–1850
Harriet Spangler
1819–1874
Marriage: about 1841
John Shelly
1842–
John Wesley Shelly
1850–

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
about 1841
Warrington Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States
children

(2)

    John Shelly

    Male1842–Male

    John Wesley Shelly

    Male1850–Male

Parents and Siblings

    John Peter Spangler

    Male1789–1850Male

    Susannah Maish

    Female1800–1873Female

siblings

(13)

    John Spangler

    Male1814–1837Male

    Harriet Spangler

    Female1819–1874Female

    Henrietta Spangler

    Female1821–1874Female

    Mary Spangler

    Female1822–1885Female

    Levi M. Spangler

    Male1825–1894Male

+8 More Children

World Events (6)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

Age 0

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 
1820 · Making States Equal

Age 1

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1836 · Remember the Alamo

Age 17

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

Name Meaning

German (Bavarian): originally an occupational name for a maker of buckles, from an agent derivative of a diminutive form of Middle High German spange ‘clasp’, ‘buckle’, ‘ornamental fastening’, later coming to mean ‘tinsmith’, ‘plumber’.

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

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Sources (3)

  • Harriet Shelly in household of Ephrm Shelly, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Harriet Shelly in household of Ephraim Shelly, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Harriett Shelly in household of Ephraim Shelly, "United States Census, 1860"

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