When Ellen Jane Belknap was born on 8 November 1839, in Randolph, Orange, Vermont, United States, her father, Royal Converse Belknap, was 30 and her mother, Fanny Sprague, was 29. She married Jefferson P Slack on 15 September 1861, in Strafford, Orange, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 7 June 1904, in Vermont, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Strafford, Orange, Vermont, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
St. Albans Raid took place on October 19, 1864. It was a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory. Confederate soldiers that were in Canada raided the town of St. Albans killed one person and robbed three banks.
English: probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, the second element of which is most likely Middle English knappe ‘hilltop’. Compare Belnap .
History: Abraham Belknap (c. 1588–c. 1643) emigrated from Latton, Essex, England, to Lynn, MA, in the 1630s.
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