Brief Life History of Ellen Marie
When Ellen Marie Wells was born on 5 October 1841, in Underhill Center, Underhill, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, her father, Nathaniel Wells Jr, was 36 and her mother, Lovey M Carr, was 32. She married Luman Lewis Bixby on 12 November 1859, in Underhill, Chittenden, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Underhill, Chittenden, Vermont, United States in 1850 and Waterloo, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. She died on 2 August 1924, in Estherville, Emmet, Iowa, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in East Side Cemetery, Estherville, Emmet, Iowa, United States.
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- Ellen Wells in household of Nathaniel Wells, "United States Census, 1850"
- Ellen M Bixby, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
- Ellen Wells in entry for Amanda Jeanette Manning, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1845
Historical Boundaries: 1845: Black Hawk, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Black Hawk, Iowa, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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