Elizabeth Ann Blackledge

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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Family Time Line

Herrin Henry Waters
1783–1853
Elizabeth Ann Blackledge
1785–1858
Marriage: 1809
Archibald Murray Walters
1805–1879
Walters
1816–1816
William Harium Walters
about 1820–1880
Jesse J Walters
1808–1813
Harriet Waters
1808–
James H. Walters
1812–1861
Robert Morgan Walters
1814–1884
Walters
1818–1818
John Walters
1819–
Mary Walters
about 1820–
Richard Wesley Walters
1821–1887
Henry Bingham Berry Walters
1823–1880
Sarah E. Walters
1825–
Alice Jane Walters
1826–1880
Henry M. Walters
1828–1890
Rachel Ann Walters
1829–
Isaac K Walters
1830–
Irena Walters
1834–

Sources (2)

  • Elizabeth Walters in household of William Walters, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Ann Watters in household of Herrin Watters, "United States Census, 1850"

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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