When Andrew Moore Ellis was born on 12 July 1839, in Ripley, Union Township, Brown, Ohio, United States, his father, John Hezekiah Ellis, was 39 and his mother, Hannah Martin, was 33. He married Alice Loraine Bonney on 19 February 1866, in Harrison, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Little Sioux Township, Harrison, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1910. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 7 November 1923, in Little Sioux, Harrison, Iowa, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Little Sioux Cemetery, Little Sioux, Harrison, Iowa, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1846: Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Iowa, United States 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French vernacular form of Elias, the Latin and New Testament Greek form of Hebrew Eliyahu; see Elijah and compare Elias , Lias , Ely .
English: possibly in some instances from the Middle English female personal name Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth .
Welsh: from Elis, a shortened form of the Welsh personal name Elisse (earlier Elisedd, a derivative of elus ‘kindly, benevolent’). As usual in Welsh, the stress in Elisse is on the penultimate syllable -li-, which shifts to initial El- when the name is shortened to Elis. It later became confused with Ellis in 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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