Brief Life History of Helen Ellen
When Helen Ellen Burnside was born on 16 May 1868, in McKeesport, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Mason Burnside, was 41 and her mother, Elizabeth Prentice, was 41. She married John Cunningham Bell on 24 December 1890, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 22 July 1906, in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Mount Pleasant City Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- Ellen Burnside in household of John Burnside, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Helen Ellen Burnside - birth: 16 May 1868; McKeesport, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States
- Ellen Burnside, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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World Events (8)
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.
1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
Scottish (central Scotland) and Irish (Ulster): habitational name from one of the many places so named (from burn- ‘stream’), especially those in Lanarkshire and West Lothian.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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ELLEN BURNSIDE BELL I haven’t been very successful in finding out much of the life of Ellen Burnside Bell. How sad the family couldn’t have seen far enough ahead, that while her husband, brothers, …
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