Mary Ann Francis Ellington

Brief Life History of Mary Ann Francis

Mary Ann Francis Ellington was born in 1829, in Johnson, Georgia, United States as the daughter of John T Ellington and Mary Elizabeth Hightower. She married Madison Hodges Mason on 18 April 1848, in Emanuel, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Washington, Wilkes, Georgia, United States in 1850. She died in 1889, in Wrightsville, Johnson, Georgia, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in West View Cemetery, Wrightsville, Johnson, Georgia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Madison Hodges Mason
1826–1898
Mary Ann Francis Ellington
1829–1889
Marriage: 18 April 1848
Mary Nancy Jane Mason
1848–1914
James H Mason
1853–1885
Joseph Morris Mason
1855–1924
Sarah Elizabeth Mason
1857–1932
George Thomas Mason
1857–1911
George Mason
1858–1927
Charles Augustus Mason
1862–1938
Rubin M Mason
1863–
Willey G Mason
1867–
Annie M B Mason
1869–1926
Lillie F Mason
1872–1934

Sources (13)

  • Mary F Mason in household of Malison H Mason, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Mary Anne F Eellington, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
  • Mary Anne Frances Ellington Mason, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1832 · Worcester v. Georgia

In 1830, U.S. President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which required all Native Americans to relocate to areas west of the Mississippi River. That same year, Governor Gilmer of Georgia signed an act which claimed for Georgia all Cherokee territories within the boundaries of Georgia. The Cherokees protested the act and the case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, Worcester v. Georgia, ruled in 1832 that the United States, not Georgia, had rights over the Cherokee territories and Georgia laws regarding the Cherokee Nation were voided. President Jackson didn’t enforce the ruling and the Cherokees did not cede their land and Georgia held a land lottery anyway for white settlers.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of several places called Ellington (Hampshire, Kent, North Yorkshire, and Northumberland), named either from Old English æl, ēl ‘eel’ or from the Old English personal name Ella or Eli (a short form of various compound names with the first element ælf ‘elf’) + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead’. However, Ellington in Kent has its first element from the Old English byname Ealda ‘old’.

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

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