Brief Life History of Ruhama Ellen
When Ruhama Ellen Cleveland was born on 28 October 1851, in Schuyler, Illinois, United States, her father, Alexander Dennison Cleveland, was 19 and her mother, Amanda Jane Spiver, was 16. She married Lucius Gardner Parmenter on 2 November 1871, in Adams, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Chili Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Ferry, Washington, United States in 1920. She died on 25 November 1925, in Colville, Stevens, Washington, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Colville, Stevens, Washington, United States.
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- Ellen Cleavland in household of Alexander Cleavland, "United States Census, 1860"
- Ella R Cleveland, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Ruhana Ellen Peterson, "Washington Deaths and Burials, 1810-1960"
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1859
Historical Boundaries 1859: Spokane, Washington Territory, United States 1864: Stevens, Washington Territory, United States 1889: Stevens, Washington, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places in Devon, Essex, or the North Yorkshire, formed from the genitive plural (clifa) of Old English clif ‘bank, slope’ + land ‘land’.
Americanized form (and a rare Norwegian variant) of Norwegian Kleveland or its variant Kleiveland, and also of Kleven or its variant Kleiven.
History: Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th president of the US, was the fifth child of a country Presbyterian clergyman. His father, Richard Falley Cleveland, a graduate of Yale College and of the theological seminary at Princeton, was descended from Moses Cleaveland who arrived in MA in 1635.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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