Ellmira Adeline Lanning

Brief Life History of Ellmira Adeline

When Ellmira Adeline Lanning was born in 1850, in Arkansas, United States, her father, Joseph Lanning, was 37 and her mother, Nancy Case, was 33. She lived in Giles Township, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States in 1860. She died in 1878, in Van Buren, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 28.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Lanning
1813–1881
Nancy Case
1817–1855
Joshua F Lanning
1839–1862
Mary Jane Lanning
1840–1910
George Washington Lanning
1842–1863
Nancy Elzira Lanning
1844–1893
Margaret Elvira Lanning
1844–1909
Sarah Elizabeth Lanning
1846–1913
Matilda Caroline Lanning
1848–1920
Ellmira Adeline Lanning
1850–1878

Sources (1)

  • Elmira A Lanning in household of Joseph Lanning, "United States Census, 1860"

World Events (6)

1861

Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Name Meaning

English (Dorset and Somerset): unexplained.

Dutch: patronymic from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name composed with the element land ‘land, territory’.

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

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