Brief Life History of Evaline
When Evaline Dwight was born on 10 November 1839, in Margaretta Township, Erie, Ohio, United States, her father, Roswell Dwight, was 26 and her mother, Elosia Skidmore, was 27. She married Peter Bardshar on 11 February 1863. She lived in Ohio, United States in 1870. She died on 13 February 1936, in Sandusky, Ohio, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Castalia, Charles Mix, South Dakota, United States.
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- Evaline Bareshar in household of Roswell Dwight, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Evaline Dwight - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Evaline Dwight
- Evaline Dwight, "Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1958"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English (Buckinghamshire): probably a variant of Twite , from various places called with Old Norse thveit ‘clearing’ (see Thwaites ). Alternatively, it may be a variant of Tuite .
History: Timothy Dwight (1752–1817), Congregational minister, author, and president of Yale College (1795–1817), was the dominant figure in the Established Order of CT. He was born in Northampton, MA, a descendant of John Dwight, who came from Dedham, England, in 1635 and settled in Dedham, MA, and the grandson of Jonathan Edwards, the great theologian of American Puritanism.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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