Charlotte H. Eddy

Brief Life History of Charlotte H.

When Charlotte H. Eddy was born in January 1834, in Maine, United States, her father, Thomas F Eddy, was 28 and her mother, Rachel G. Campbell, was 28. She married Elias Frank Knowlton on 22 June 1855, in Eddington, Penobscot, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Eddington, Penobscot, Maine, United States for about 20 years and Brewer, Penobscot, Maine, United States in 1900. She died on 4 July 1917, at the age of 83, and was buried in Eddington, Penobscot, Maine, United States.

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Family Time Line

Elias Frank Knowlton
1830–1860
Charlotte H. Eddy
1834–1917
Marriage: 22 June 1855
Oscar Frank Knowlton
1856–1939
Eddy Thomas Knowlton
1858–1923

Sources (11)

  • Charlotte Eddy in household of Thomas Eddy, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Charlott H. Knowlton, "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907"
  • Charlotte H. Eddy Knowlton Nichols, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1838 · The Aroostook War

An international incident referred to as the Aroostook War or "Pork and Beans War". The conflict resulted as part of an international boundary dispute between the United States. Although several British soldiers were captured, nobody was killed during the war. In fact, local militia units did not engage in any significant combat. One of the most dramatic events was actually when two Canadian militia were injured by Black Bears.

1863

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

Name Meaning

Cornish: from the personal name Edy (pronounced ‘eedy’), a variant of Udy , from the Middle English personal name Ude, Udy, Latinized as Udo and Odo. It may represent Old French Eude (ancient Germanic Eudo, of uncertain etymology), whose usual Latin form is Eudo. This agrees with later evidence that the original pronunciation of the initial vowel of Udy was /y:/ (as in French tu), though in the 16th century it was sometimes unrounded to /i:/, spelled -e(e)-. It was later altered to Eddy.

English: variant of Eady .

English: perhaps from a shortened form of the Middle English personal name Edwy (Old English Ēadwīg, from ēad ‘prosperity, fortune’ + wīg ‘war’), which has not survived in that form as a surname.

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

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