Brief Life History of Frances Amelia
When Frances Amelia Linville was born on 12 March 1829, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Solomon Linville, was 26 and her mother, Mary Louisa Passmore, was 25. She married John Patterson Wilson on 4 February 1855, in Champaign, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Washington Township, Keokuk, Iowa, United States for about 5 years and East Muddy Election Precinct, Gosper, Nebraska, United States in 1900. She died on 22 July 1910, in Sioux, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Harrison, Sioux, Nebraska, United States.
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- Francis A Ellis in household of Lorenzo L Wilson, "United States Census, 1910"
- Frances Linville, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Francis Amelia Linville Ellis, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1837
Historical Boundaries: 1837: Wisconsin Territory, United States 1838: Iowa Territory, United States 1843: Keokuk, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Keokuk, Iowa, United States
1854
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Name Meaning
English: probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, perhaps in France. The surname is not found in present-day English records, but is recorded in Hampshire (also in the forms Lenvill, Linvel) in the 17th century. Perhaps it is an altered form of English Lindfield or Lingfield, a habitational name from a place so called in Sussex, altered by false analogy with the alternation in Norman names between -ville and -field.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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