Brief Life History of Martha Ann
When Martha Ann Ellington was born on 13 October 1834, in Germany, her father, Lewis Duval Ellington, was 24 and her mother, Lucinda H. Smith, was 24. She married Goodwin Franklin Raney on 13 October 1853, in Gilmer, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Gilmer, Georgia, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1865, at the age of 31.
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Sources (6)
- Martha A Rainey in household of Goodwin F Rainey, "United States Census, 1860"
- Martha A. P. Ellington, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Martha Ann Ellington Raney, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (6)
1835 · Treaty of New Echota
A minority group of Cherokees including John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Stand Waite, signed the Treaty of New Echota which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi in exchange for five million dollars. The majority of Cherokees did not agree and 16,000 Cherokee signatures were gathered to protest the treaty. Boudinot and both Ridges were killed several years later by angry Cherokees for signing the treaty.
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.
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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