Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Meyer was born on 17 May 1792, in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, SGT Joh. Philip Meyer, was 36 and her mother, Anna Margaret Morr, was 32. She married John Christian Gast III on 8 June 1813, in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Prospect Township, Marion, Ohio, United States in 1860. She died on 17 December 1865, in Prospect, Marion, Ohio, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Prospect, Marion, Ohio, United States.
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- Elizabeth Gast in household of David Gast, "United States Census, 1860"
- Elizabeth Moyer Gast, "Find A Grave Index"
- Elizabeth Majer in entry for Abbie Landon, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
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World Events (8)
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1803
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Name Meaning
German and Swiss German: from Middle High German meier, a status name for a steward, bailiff, or overseer, which later came to be used also to denote a tenant farmer, which is normally the sense in the many compound surnames formed with this term as a second element. Originally it denoted a village headman (ultimately from Latin maior ‘greater, superior’). This form of the surname is also established in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine); see also 3 below. Compare Maier , Mayer , Meier , and Myer .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Meyer, from Hebrew Meir ‘enlightener’, a derivative of or ‘light’ with the prefix m-. Compare Maier , Majer , Major , Mayer , Mayor , Meier , and Meir .
Dutch: variant, also Flemish and Americanized, of Meijer , a cognate of 1 above. This surname is also established in South Africa, where it was also brought from France (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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