Brief Life History of Elvira T
When Elvira T Merriman was born about 1821, in Scott, Kentucky, United States, her father, Lyman Merriman, was 30 and her mother, Sarah R Howard, was 28. She married Francis M. Young on 11 November 1849, in Sangamon, Illinois, United States. She died in 1851, in Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 31.
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Sources (3)
- Alvira Young in household of Francis Young, "United States Census, 1850"
- Elvira T Merryman, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Elvira T Merryman, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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World Events (8)
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.
1821
Historical Boundaries: 1821: Sangamon, Illinois, United States
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.
Name Meaning
English:
nickname from Middle English mirie, merie, murie ‘merry, pleasant’ + man ‘man’. Compare Merry 1. This surname is established in Ireland (perhaps as an Anglicized form of an unidentified Gaelic name; compare Marmion ) as well as England.
there has probably been some confusion with Marriman, probably an occupational name meaning ‘servant of Mary’, from the female personal name Mary (see Marie ) + Middle English man in the sense ‘servant’, or perhaps a pet form of Mary using the hypocoristic suffix -man. The surname Marriman is now vanishingly rare in Britain and Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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