When Nancy Parmelia Boren was born on 8 June 1849, in Crescent, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, James Britton Boren, was 32 and her mother, Nancy Ann McIntosh, was 38. She married Phillip Ballard on 15 June 1868, in Douglas, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Crescent Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1860. She died on 8 September 1908, in Soldier, Blaine, Idaho, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Camas, Idaho, United States.
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The Geographic Names Information System(GNIS) indicates opened as Ellisdale 04/03/1856. Name changed to Crescent City 05/16/1857. Name changed to Crescent 06/18/1883.
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Swedish (also Borén): ornamental name composed of an unexplained first element + the adjectival suffix -én/-en, a derivative of Latin -enius ‘relating to’. Compare Boreen and Borin .
Polish (Boreń): from a pet form of the personal names like Borzysław (see Bora 1).
Probably also an Americanized form of German Born .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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