Frances Amelia Linville

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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Family Time Line

George Paris Ellis
1817–1890
Frances Amelia Linville
1829–1910
Marriage: 15 February 1863
Margaret A Ellis
1863–1865
Solomon Linvill Ellis
1865–1905
Avis Amelia Ellis
1866–1957
Davis P. Ellis
1867–1868
Robert Theodore Ellis
1869–1948
Mabel Estell Ellis
1871–1952

Sources (24)

  • 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"

World Events (8)

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 This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.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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