Esther Allen Cleveland

Brief Life History of Esther Allen

When Esther Allen Cleveland was born on 24 August 1808, in Barkhamsted, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Oren Cleveland, was 23 and her mother, Esther Allen, was 22. She married Michael Barnes on 4 May 1835, in New Hartford, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Geauga, Ohio, United States in 1880. She died on 24 November 1891, in Huntsburg, Geauga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Huntsburg, Geauga, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Michael Barnes
1804–1870
Esther Allen Cleveland
1808–1891
Marriage: 4 May 1835
Barnes
1836–1836
Oren Michael Barnes
1837–1911
Charlotte Esther Barnes
1839–1916
Virgil Taylor Barnes
1842–1915
Hubert Arthur Barnes
1844–1864

Sources (8)

  • Esther Barnes, "United States, Census, 1850"
  • Esther Allen Cleveland Barnes, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Esther A Cleveland in entry for Charlotte Esther Strong, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"

World Events (8)

1810 · Change of capital city

Zanesville becomes the new state capital.

1812

War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

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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