When Nancy Ann Eller was born in 1837, in Indiana, United States, her father, Peter Eller, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Weaver, was 28. She married Jesse Carpenter in 1855. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Moselle, Franklin, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Saint Clair, Franklin, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 5 December 1924, in Indiana, United States, at the age of 87.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
North German: topographic name for someone who lived by an alder tree, from Middle Low German elre, alre ‘alder’.
German: habitational name from any of the places in the North Rhine and Mosel areas, so called from an old stream name Elera, Alira, of Celtic origin.
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of Heller , reflecting varieties of Yiddish in which there is no h.
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