Brief Life History of Lois Blinn
When Lois Blinn Kelsey was born on 5 January 1796, in Marlboro, Windham, Vermont, United States, her father, Seymour Kelsey, was 44 and her mother, Sarah Augur, was 31. She married Antepas Winchester on 2 January 1822, in Marlboro, Windham, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 10 July 1885, at the age of 89, and was buried in Clark Warren Cemetery, Marlboro, Windham, Vermont, United States.
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- Louis Winchester in household of Antipast Winchester, "United States Census, 1870"
- Lois Blinn Kelsey Winchester, "Find A Grave Index"
- Lois Kelsey, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"
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World Events (8)
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1818
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.
1820 · Making States Equal
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from North or South Kelsey in Lincolnshire, so named from an uncertain initial element (perhaps an Old English personal name with genitive -es) + Old English ēg ‘island’.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Gelzer.
History: William Kelsey was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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