Brief Life History of Eleanor Elmira
When Eleanor Elmira Shannon was born in January 1821, in Waterloo Township, Athens, Ohio, United States, her father, Charles Shannon, was 31 and her mother, Ellerner Shannon, was 30. She married Aazaniah Nyne Manley on 9 January 1848, in Athens, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Mount Pulaski Township, Logan, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 12 June 1900, in Logan, Illinois, United States, at the age of 79.
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- Elenor Manly in household of Ninian Manly, "United States Census, 1870"
- Eleanor Shannon, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Eliner Shannon in entry for Lydia Ann Coates, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
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1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
1832 · Black Hawk War
"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Irish:
shortened form of Shanahan .
shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Seanáin ‘descendant of Seanán’, a personal name based on a pet form of seán ‘old’. This Irish surname became established in Scotland in the 14th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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