Brief Life History of Alvana
When Alvana Eason was born in 1836, in North Carolina, United States, her father, Benjamin Eason, was 55 and her mother, Bethaney Snipes, was 38. She lived in Washington, Tazewell, Illinois, United States in 1850.
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- Alvana Eason in household of Robert H Eason, "United States Census, 1850"
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1839 · From Swamp to Beautiful Place
By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
1853 · First State Fair
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Eastham , Easton , or Easun. The latter is itself also a variant of Neston, a habitational name from Neston in Corsham (Wiltshire), probably deriving from Old English næss ‘headland, promontory’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’, or from Neston (Cheshire), from Old English næss or Old Norse nes ‘headland, promontory’, or perhaps Old English nesu ‘nose’, with the same sense, + Old English tūn. Alternatively, Neston may be a topographic name from Middle English an esten tun (Old English on ēastan tūne), denoting someone who lived ‘on the east of the village’.
Scottish: variant of Esson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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