Bettie Lucretia Ellis

Brief Life History of Bettie Lucretia

When Bettie Lucretia Ellis was born on 2 September 1899, her father, Abram Lincoln Ellis, was 39 and her mother, Martha Elizabeth Davis, was 32. She married Frank Allyn Edmiston on 2 December 1920, in Menard, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Commissioner's Precinct 4, Schleicher, Texas, United States in 1940 and Schleicher, Texas, United States in 1950. She died on 29 January 1962, at the age of 62, and was buried in Eldorado, Schleicher, Texas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Frank Allyn Edmiston
1900–1966
Bettie Lucretia Ellis
1899–1962
Marriage: 2 December 1920
Delbert Ellis Edmiston
1922–1973
Frankie Omega Edmiston
1925–1993

Sources (14)

  • Bettie Edmiston, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Bettie Lucretia Ellis - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Bettie Lucretia Ellis
  • Bettie Ellis, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered

"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

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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