Elizabeth Cole

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Cole was born about 1780, in Harford, Maryland, United States, her father, Ephraim Cole Sr., was 28 and her mother, Sophia Ada Mitchell, was 23. She married John Phillips Jr. on 20 January 1805, in Adams Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. She died in 1863, in Adams Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Adams Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Phillips Jr.
1780–1828
Elizabeth Cole
1780–1863
Marriage: 20 January 1805
Sophia Phillips
1805–
Ephraim Phillips
1807–
Marion Phillips
1808–
Ephriam Phillips
1817–
Jane Phillips
1822–
Marion Phillips
1806–
Phoebe Phillips
1806–
Sarah Phillips
1809–1870
Leonard Phillips
1810–1863
Maria Phillips
1813–1891
Theophilus Phillips
1814–1879
John George Phillips III
1815–1891
Silas Phillips
1818–

Sources (7)

  • 1860 US Census about Elizabeth Cole Phillips Wood
  • Legacy NFS Source: Elizabeth Cole - birth: about 1790; Maryland, United States
  • Richard Woods [Richard Wood] and Elizabeth Cole Phillips, "Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1958"

World Events (8)

1781

In 1781, Maryland donated land to be used for part of Washington, D. C.

1781 · The First Constitution

Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.

1803

France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

Name Meaning

English: usually from the Middle English and Old French personal name Col(e), Coll(e), Coul(e), a pet form of Nicol (see Nichol and Nicholas ), a common personal name from the mid 13th century onward. English families with this name migrated to Scotland and to Ulster (especially Fermanagh).

English: occasionally perhaps from a different (early) Middle English personal name Col, of native English or Scandinavian origin. Old English Cola was originally a nickname from Old English col ‘coal’ in the sense ‘coal-black (of hair), swarthy’ and is the probable source of most of the examples in Domesday Book. In the northern and eastern counties of England settled by Vikings in the 10th and 11th centuries, alternative sources are Old Norse Kolr and Koli (either from a nickname ‘the swarthy one’ or a short form of names in Kol-), and Old Norse Kollr (from a nickname, perhaps ‘the bald one’).

English: nickname for someone with swarthy skin or black hair, from Middle English col, coul(e) ‘charcoal, coal’ (Old English col).

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

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