When Hannah Ellis was born on 20 April 1841, in Ohio, United States, her father, John Hezekiah Ellis, was 41 and her mother, Hannah Martin, was 35. She married Jasper Walter Bonney in January 1866, in Little Sioux, Harrison, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Huntington Township, Brown, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Jackson Township, Harrison, Iowa, United States in 1860. She died in February 1870, in Little Sioux, Harrison, Iowa, United States, at the age of 28.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Iowa is the 29th state.
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Harrison, Iowa, United States
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.
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