Brief Life History of Elizabeth Cleopatra
When Elizabeth Cleopatra Bellows was born on 8 September 1829, in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois, United States, her father, James Bellows, was 33 and her mother, Judith Abigail Hopper, was 22. She married John Merlin Plumb in August 1847, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1850 and lived in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Brigham City, Apache, Arizona, United States in 1880. She died on 22 October 1887, in Eden, Graham, Arizona, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Eden Cemetery, Eden, Graham, Arizona, United States.
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- Elizabeth Plum in household of Mullin Plum, "United States Census, 1850"
- Family Data Collection - Births
- Iowa, Select Marriages, 1809-1992
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1832 · Black Hawk War
The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of bellows, a plural variant of Bellow 1.
Americanized form of French Béland (see Beland ), with the addition of excrescent -s, a common feature of Americanized surnames.
In some cases also an Americanized form of Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) Belous .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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