Elizabeth Ann Romney

14 April 1852–28 May 1940 (Age 88)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

The Life Summary of Elizabeth Ann

When Elizabeth Ann Romney was born on 14 April 1852, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, George Romney Sr, was 20 and her mother, Jane Jamieson, was 23. She married Frederick Christian Anderson on 28 October 1872, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 28 May 1940, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Frederick Christian Anderson
1840–1908
Elizabeth Ann Romney
1852–1940
Marriage: 28 October 1872
Frederick Anderson
1875–1875
Grace Viola Anderson
1877–1969
Pearl Anderson
1891–

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    28 October 1872Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
    • Children

    (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (13)

    +8 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1863
    Age 11
    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
    1867 · Gas Street Lamps Installed
    Age 15
    The Los Angeles Gas Company installed 43 gas street lamps on Main Street. A lamplighter rode on horseback at dusk to light the streetlights. By 1873, 136 gas lamps had been installed in Los Angeles. 
    1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
    Age 23
    In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name from Romney (Kent), from an uncertain first element (perhaps an Old English personal name Rūmen) + Old English ēa ‘river, stream’. Compare Rye 2.

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

    Possible Related Names

    Rumney
    Rye

    Sources (20)

    • Lizzie Anderson in household of John Brown, "United States Census, 1920"
    • Lizzie Romany in entry for Oley Boyle and Pearl E Anderson, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
    • Elizth A in entry for Frederick Anderson, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"

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