Brief Life History of Ellen
When Ellen Carlton was born in 1845, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Ambrose Carlton, was 43 and her mother, Lucinda Foster, was 40. She married Henry Simerly on 9 December 1860, in Carter, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Carter, Carter, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Carter, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. She died after 1900, in Tennessee, United States.
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- Ellen Simerly, "United States Census, 1870"
- Ellen Caron, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Helen Simerly in entry for Delia Simerly, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Name Meaning
English (northern and eastern England): habitational name from any of various places called Carlton (Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Durham, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, East Yorkshire, Yorkshire, and North Yorkshire) or Carleton (Cumberland, Lancashire, Norfolk, Yorkshire). All come from Old Norse karl ‘common man, peasant’ + Old English tūn ‘settlement’ (compare Charlton ). Places spelled Carl(e)ton (as opposed to Charlton) are in areas of Scandinavian settlement, mostly in northern England.
Irish (Antrim): variant of Carleton 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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