Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Earl was born in 1785, in Washington, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Ebenezer Earl, was 35 and her mother, Susannah Ray, was 31. She married John Cochran Caldwell on 1 May 1817, in Portage, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Jefferson Township, Williams, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Ohio, United States in 1870. She died on 12 May 1878, in Bryan, Williams, Ohio, United States, at the age of 93.
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- Bessy Colwell in household of John Colwell, "United States Census, 1850"
- Elizabeth Earl, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Obituary of Elizabeth Caldwell
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1803
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
1810 · Change of capital city
Zanesville becomes the new state capital.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English e(o)rl ‘earl’, a traditional English title of nobility equivalent in rank to French and Norman Count .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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