When Annie Elizabeth Nellis was born in 1862, in Indiana, United States, her father, Rev Peter Spraker Nellis, was 41 and her mother, Karolina Merkel, was 32. She married Marcus Munson Wilkinson on 3 November 1880, in Perry, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Macon, Macon, Illinois, United States in 1870.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1864: Macon, Illinois, United States
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Flemish and German: variant of Nelis .
Irish (Ulster): shortened form of Mac Niallghuis, see McNelis , Nelis .
English (North Yorkshire): of uncertain origin. A derivation from Middle English Nellis, an unrecorded rhyming pet form of Ellis, is not impossible. Alternatively, it might be variant of Neels , though this name is rarely recorded in northern England. The earliest spellings of the name have final -t (Nellist), generally assumed to be excrescent, and not original to the name, but the ubiquity of this feature suggests it may be intrinsic to the true etymology.
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