Nancy D. Gilliland

Brief Life History of Nancy D.

When Nancy D. Gilliland was born on 30 April 1817, in Newton Hamilton, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Mathew Gilliland, was 28 and her mother, Jane Cluggage Gilliland, was 23. She married Samuel S. Sechrist in 1841, in Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Wayne Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. She died on 12 June 1886, in Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Newton Hamilton, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel S. Sechrist
1810–1888
Nancy D. Gilliland
1817–1886
Marriage: 1841
Elizabeth Harriet Sechrist
1839–1929
James Sechrist
1843–1918
Mary Ann Sechrist
1844–1923
William Sechrist
1846–1893
Arabella Sechrist
1847–1916
John C. Sechrest
1848–1888
Samuel Henry Sechrist
1853–1912
Hannah Sechrist
1855–1873
Martha Margaret Sechrist
1858–1932
Mathew Thomas Secrest
1858–1935

Sources (6)

  • Nancy D Seachrist in household of Saml Seachrist, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Nancy D. Gilliland - Family genealogies: birth-name: Nancy D. Gilliland
  • Nancy Gilliland Sechrest, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

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

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

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

Scottish and Irish (Ulster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Fhaolain (Scottish) or Mac Giolla Fhaoláin (Irish) ‘son of the servant of St. Faolán (Fillan)’. Compare McClellan .

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

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