Brief Life History of Abigail Jane
When Abigail Jane Ellis was born on 19 June 1853, in Port Maitland, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Edmund Jacob Ellis, was 45 and her mother, Bethiah Criss, was 22. She married Aaron Crosby on 20 November 1875, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1901 and Huntington Beach Judicial Township, Orange, California, United States in 1940. She died on 11 April 1948, in Orange, California, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Westminster Memorial Park, Westminster, Orange, California, United States.
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- Abagail Ellis in household of Edmond Ellis, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Abigail Jane Hoskin, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Abigail Jane Craby, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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1857 · 7.9 Earthquake In Fort Tejon
The Fort Tejon earthquake, on January 9, 1857, registered at 7.9, making it one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the United States. Only two people were killed, largely due to the sparse population in the area where the earthquake occurred. As a result of the large scale shaking, the Kern River was turned upstream and fish were stranded miles from Tulare Lake as the waters were rocked so far from its banks.
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French vernacular form of Elias, the Latin and New Testament Greek form of Hebrew Eliyahu; see Elijah and compare Elias , Lias , Ely .
English: possibly in some instances from the Middle English female personal name Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth .
Welsh: from Elis, a shortened form of the Welsh personal name Elisse (earlier Elisedd, a derivative of elus ‘kindly, benevolent’). As usual in Welsh, the stress in Elisse is on the penultimate syllable -li-, which shifts to initial El- when the name is shortened to Elis. It later became confused with Ellis in 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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