Ella Missimer

Brief Life History of Ella

When Ella Missimer was born on 9 March 1854, her father, John Brownback Missimer, was 39 and her mother, Cornelia Kemmerer, was 32. She lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years. She died on 2 March 1909, at the age of 54, and was buried in Nisky Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Monroe Heany Cressman
1851–1907
Ella Missimer
1854–1909

Sources (3)

  • Ella Cressman in household of Monroe Cressman, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Ella Missimer Cressman, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Ella Cressman in household of Monroe Cressman, "United States Census, 1900"

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World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1863 · Battle of Gettysburg

The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.

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

German: variant of Messimer .

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

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