Brief Life History of Eliza
When Eliza Adams was born in September 1841, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, her father, Samuel Morrow Adams, was 34 and her mother, Margaret Dick, was 31. She married Greenup Jones on 26 August 1856, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States. She lived in Magisterial District 2, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died in United States.
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- Eliza Tate in household of Samuel Tate, "United States Census, 1900"
- Eliza Jones, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Eliza Adams in entry for Greenup Jones, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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World Events (3)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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