Brief Life History of Ellen Theresa
When Ellen Theresa Foote was born on 6 September 1856, in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States, her father, Horace Foote, was 44 and her mother, Harriett Newell Batchelder, was 30. She married George E Smith about 1876, in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Guilford Township, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States in 1870. She died on 4 May 1903, at the age of 46.
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- Nellie L Foote in household of Horace Foote, "United States Census, 1870"
- Nellie T. Smith, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Nellie T Foote, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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World Events (8)
1858 · A House Divided
Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
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 and Scottish: from Middle English fot ‘foot’ (Old English fōt), sometimes translated in medieval documents by Latin cum pede ‘with the foot’. Probably a nickname for someone with a deformity of the foot or with large feet.
English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English personal name Fot, from Old Norse Fótr, originally a nickname with the same sense as 1 above.
English: topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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