Elijah Francis

Brief Life History of Elijah

When Elijah Francis was born on 4 March 1882, in Bonne Terre, St. Francois, Missouri, United States, his father, James Henry Francis, was 23 and his mother, Lydia Jane Doane, was 21. He married Mayme Inez Evans on 11 September 1904, in Bonne Terre, St. Francois, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Perry Township, St. Francois, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. He died on 11 August 1912, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Bonne Terre Cemetery, Bonne Terre, St. Francois, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Elijah Francis
1882–1912
Mayme Inez Evans
1884–1955
Marriage: 11 September 1904
Horace Dell Francis
1905–1980
Helen Lydia Francis
1907–1979

Sources (9)

  • Elija Francis, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Elijah Francis, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • Elijah Francis, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1886

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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union

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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English: from the Old French personal name Franceis, modern French François, from Latin Franciscus, originally ‘Frank’, though later used to denote a Frenchman. The personal name owed much of its popularity during the Middle Ages to the fame of Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226), whose baptismal name was actually Giovanni but who was nicknamed Francisco because his father was absent in France at the time of his birth. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Francesco and Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Franc , and also their derivatives, e.g. Croatian Francišković (see Francisco 4).

English: ethnic name from the Old French adjective Franceis ‘French’ (see 1 above).

Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames, or an adoption of the non-Jewish surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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