Brief Life History of Eleanor
When Eleanor Overcash was born about 1749, in Cold Water, Cabarrus, North Carolina, United States, her father, Johannes Peter Oberkirsch, was 53 and her mother, Anne Elisabeth Kuntz, was 49. She married Silas Shinn in 1768, in Rowan, North Carolina, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died about 1810, in North Carolina, United States, at the age of 63.
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Spouse and Children
1745– Male
1749–1810 Female
Children (4)
1770–1825 Male
1770–1843 Female
1772–1870 Male
1777–1836 Male
Parents and Siblings
1697–1752 Male
1701–1774 Female
Siblings (3)
1731– Female
1745– Female
1749–1810 Female
World Events (6)
1776
Age 27
1776
Age 27
1783 · A Free America
Age 34
Name Meaning
Americanized form of South German Oberkirch, a habitational name meaning ‘upper church’ from a place so named in Baden (or possibly from any of the places called Oberkirchen, in Westphalia and Saar district).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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