Brief Life History of Ellen Argen
When Ellen Argen Crowell was born on 11 March 1849, in Crittenden, Kentucky, United States, her father, Miles Crowell, was 33 and her mother, Martha Milstead, was 30. She married Thomas H. Williams on 18 January 1867, in Jackson, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Jackson, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Marion, Williamson, Illinois, United States in 1910. She died on 16 March 1924, in Carbondale, Jackson, Illinois, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Oakland Cemetery, Carbondale, Jackson, Illinois, United States.
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- Eda Williams in household of Henry Williams, "United States Census, 1910"
- Ellen A. Williams, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Ellen Crowell, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934"
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World Events (8)
1853
Historical Boundaries: 1853: Jackson, Illinois, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a lost place called Crowell in Spofforth (Yorkshire), or from a place in Oxfordshire named Crowell, from Old English crāwe ‘crow’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’.
Americanized form of German Grauel .
Americanized form of Dutch Krouwel or Crouwel: from Middle Dutch crauwel ‘trident hook, claw’, a metonymic occupational name for someone using this kind of tool, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn named In de Crouwel (‘In the Trident Hook’), with such a device depicted on the signboard.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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