When Ellen Cornelia Blair was born on 12 October 1846, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Seth Millington Blair, was 27 and her mother, Cornelia Jane Espy, was 26. She married Edmund William Ellsworth on 5 November 1867, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1850 and lived in Riverdale, Weber, Utah, United States in 1870 and West Weber, Weber, Utah, United States in 1880. In 1880, at the age of 34, her occupation is listed as keeping house. She died on 22 September 1913, in Lewisville, Jefferson, Idaho, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Lewisville Cemetery, Jefferson, Idaho, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
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Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places in Scotland called Blair, named with Scottish Gaelic blàr (genitive blàir) ‘plain, field’, especially a battlefield (Irish blár). There were families of this name in the Middle Ages taking their names from any of the places called Blair in Dysart parish Fife, Dalry parish Ayrshire, and Blairgowrie in Perthshire.
Americanized form of French Belair and Blais .
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Possible Related NamesEllen Cornelia Blair was born on 12 October 1846 in Nashville, Davidson,Tennessee to Seth Millington and Cornelia Jane Espy Blair. She was the sixth of nine children, three girls and six boys. …
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