Brief Life History of Ella Virginia
When Ella Virginia Johnston was born on 3 September 1863, in Marion, Missouri, United States, her father, Isaac Johnston, was 49 and her mother, Nancy Singleton, was 41. She married Charles Shackleford Throckmorton on 18 November 1884, in Lewis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Fabius Township, Marion, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 6 July 1886, in La Belle, Lewis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 22, and was buried in LaBelle Cemetery, La Belle Township, Lewis, Missouri, United States.
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- Ella Va Johnson in household of Nancy Johnson, "United States Census, 1880"
- Ella V. Johnston, "Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920"
- Ella Virginia Johnston Throckmorton, "Find A Grave Index"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name, deriving in most cases from the place so called in Annandale, in Dumfriesshire. This is derived from the genitive case of the personal name John + + Middle English ton ‘town, village, settlement’ (Old English tūn). There are other places in Scotland so called, including the city of Perth, which used to be known as Saint John's Toun, and some of these may also be sources of the surname.
English: habitational name from Johnson Hall (Staffordshire), recorded as Johannestonc. 1233 and Joneston in 1314. The placename means ‘John's settlement’, from the genitive case of the Middle English personal name Johan, Jon (see John ) + Middle English ton ‘town, village, settlement’.
History: As far as can be ascertained, most Scottish bearers of this surname are descendants of John, probably a Norman baron from England, who held lands at Johnstone in Annandale from the Bruce family in the late 12th century. His son Gilbert was the first to take the surname Johnstone and their descendants later held the earldom of Annandale.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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