When Eliza Evaline Shirts was born on 1 January 1840, in Eagle Township, Boone, Indiana, United States, her father, George Shirts, was 29 and her mother, Sarah " Sally" Brock, was 20. She married James Bankson Haskins on 4 January 1855, in Marion, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Nez Perce, Idaho, United States in 1880 and Unity Election Precinct, Baker, Oregon, United States in 1900. She died on 12 December 1915, in Baker City, Baker, Oregon, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Sumpter, Baker, Oregon, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Linn, Oregon Territory, United States; 1859: Linn, Oregon, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1861: Nez Perce, Washington Territory, United States 1863: Nez Perce, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Nez Perce, Idaho, United States
Americanized form of German Schertz .
Possibly also an altered form of English Shirt: topographic name for someone who lived on a detached piece of land, Middle English shurte, from Old English scyrte ‘skirt, cut off piece’.
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