When Rachel Ellis was born on 25 November 1788, in Muncy, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William Ellis, was 37 and her mother, Mercy Cox, was 27. She married Jacob Haines on 24 August 1815, in Muncy, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Muncy Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. She died on 12 January 1862, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States.
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George Washington elected first president of United States.
Historical Boundaries: 1795: Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French vernacular form of Elias, the Latin and New Testament Greek form of Hebrew Eliyahu; see Elijah and compare Elias , Lias , Ely .
English: possibly in some instances from the Middle English female personal name Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth .
Welsh: from Elis, a shortened form of the Welsh personal name Elisse (earlier Elisedd, a derivative of elus ‘kindly, benevolent’). As usual in Welsh, the stress in Elisse is on the penultimate syllable -li-, which shifts to initial El- when the name is shortened to Elis. It later became confused with Ellis in 1 above.
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