Brief Life History of Elizabeth Ann
When Elizabeth Ann Blackledge was born on 29 November 1785, in South Carolina, United States, her father, Zachariah Blackledge Sr., was 18 and her mother, Mary Gressett, was 15. She married Herrin Henry Waters in 1809, in Colleton, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 8 daughters. She died in 1858, in Jones, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 73.
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- Elizabeth Walters in household of William Walters, "United States Census, 1850"
- Ann Watters in household of Herrin Watters, "United States Census, 1850"
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World Events (7)
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1788 · South Carolina becomes the 8th state in the Union
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina ratifies the Constitution of the United States making it the 8th State of the Union.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place called Blacklache near Leyland, Lancashire (now surviving in Blacklache House), named with Old English blæc ‘black, dark’ + læc(e) ‘boggy stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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