Brief Life History of Elizabeth Jane
When Elizabeth Jane Young was born in July 1849, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, George Phineas Young, was 27 and her mother, Mary Jane Kessler, was 28. She married Robert A Swisher in 1876, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Boggs Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Tivoli, Shrewsbury Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. She died in 1907, at the age of 58, and was buried in Huntersville, Mill Creek Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Elizabeth I Young in household of George Young, "United States Census, 1850"
- Elizebuth Young in entry for Amanda Elizebuth Swisher, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
- Elizabeth Swisher in household of Robert Swisher, "United States Census, 1880"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong), used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an English equivalent of the Gaelic nickname Og ‘young’; see Ogg . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘young’ or similar, notably German Jung , Dutch Jong and De Jong , and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse .
Americanized form of Swedish Ljung: topographic or an ornamental name from ljung ‘(field of) heather’, or a habitational name from a placename containing this word, e.g. Ljungby.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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