Brief Life History of Alanson Oliver Lance
When Alanson Oliver Lance Wells was born on 22 April 1829, in Nelson, Kentucky, United States, his father, Thomas Wells, was 50 and his mother, Mary Ann Hoskins, was 43. He married Lucinda Ann Cull on 2 December 1852, in Clark, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Union Township, Clark, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Union, Clark, Missouri, United States in 1910. He died on 18 August 1915, in Clark, Missouri, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Washington Township, Clark, Missouri, United States.
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- Alonson Wells, "United States Census, 1860"
- Alanson Wells, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Alanson O Wells, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1848 · The California Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
1855
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Clark, Missouri, United States
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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