Brief Life History of Edward Warren
When Edward Warren Crowell was born on 9 January 1845, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, William Crowell, was 38 and his mother, Ann Root, was 34. He married Sallie Price Cooper on 12 February 1884, in Shelby, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Waterville, Kennebec, Maine, United States in 1850 and St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1860. He died on 29 November 1888, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States.
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- Edwd W Crowell in household of Wm Crowell, "United States Census, 1860"
- E W Crowell, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Edward Warren Crowell, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
1860 · Abraham Lincoln Elected President
Abraham Lincoln was Elected President of the United States in November of 1860
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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