Diana Herrick Livingston

Brief Life History of Diana Herrick

When Diana Herrick Livingston was born on 6 May 1811, in Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont, United States, her father, Nehemiah Livingston, was 26 and her mother, Susannah Herrick, was 18. She married James Looke on 22 November 1823, in Oswego, Oswego, New York, United States. She lived in Oswego, Oswego, New York, United States in 1840. She died on 15 November 1843, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

David Ellsworth
1804–1874
Diana Herrick Livingston
1811–1843
Marriage: 1830
James Henry Ellsworth Sr
1832–1911
Lucinda Sophronia Ellsworth
1837–1915

Sources (35)

  • Diana Look, "United States Census, 1830"
  • Diona Livingstone in James Henry Ellsworth record, "Arizona Deaths, 1870-1951"
  • Diana Herrick in entry for James Ellsworth, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"

World Events (8)

1812

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

1816

Historical Boundaries 1816: Oswego, New York, United States

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

Name Meaning

Scottish: habitational name from a place in Lothian, originally named in Middle English as Levingston. The placename derives from the Middle English personal name Leving (genitive Levinges) + Middle English, Older Scots toun ‘town, village, settlement’.

Irish: surname adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnshléibhe and Mac Duinnshléibhe (see Dunleavy ).

Americanized form of Jewish Lowenstein .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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