When Eliza Laurenda Twidwell was born on 2 June 1855, in Johnson City, Washington, Tennessee, United States, her father, William Franklin Twidwell, was 31 and her mother, Gatsey Catherine Heath, was 30. She married Elijah Wallace Bennett on 8 June 1870, in Patterson, Wayne, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Benton Township, Wayne, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Arcadia, Madison, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 30 August 1930, in Pilot Knob, Iron, Missouri, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Pilot Knob Cemetery, Arcadia Township, Iron, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1857: Iron County created from parts of Madison,Reynolds, St. Francois, Washington, and Wayne counties.
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Iron, Missouri, United States
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Possibly English: habitational name, possibly from Twydall in Kent, named from Old English twī ‘two’ + dāl ‘portion of land’. This surname is not found in current English sources.
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