Brief Life History of Ella Verna
When Ella Verna Warwick was born in May 1869, in Tennessee, United States, her father, William K Warwick, was 25 and her mother, Phereby Gibbs, was 25. She married Ernest Beecher Harris on 23 January 1892, in Knox, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Knox, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Corryton, Knox, Tennessee, United States for about 16 years. She died on 9 November 1926, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 57.
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- Ellen Warrick in household of W K Warrick, "United States Census, 1870"
- Vernie Warwick, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Ella Laverna Harris, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from Warwick, the county seat of Warwickshire, or from the county itself. The placename derives from Old English wering, wæring ‘dam’ (a derivative of wer, wær ‘weir’) + wīc ‘dwelling, specialized farmstead’ (dative plural wīcum).
habitational name from a much smaller place of the same name in Cumbria. This placename probably derives from Old English waroth ‘bank, shore’ + wīc.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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