Ella Flora Dugan

Brief Life History of Ella Flora

When Ella Flora Dugan was born on 5 October 1869, in Lairdsville, Franklin Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, George Dugan, was 45 and her mother, Catharine Wood Nagle, was 38. She married Robert Simpson Smith on 7 March 1891, in Lairdsville, Franklin Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in United States in 1949 and Muncy, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. She died on 30 October 1956, in Lairdsville, Franklin Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Muncy Cemetery, Muncy, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Simpson Smith
1869–1949
Ella Flora Dugan
1869–1956
Marriage: 7 March 1891
Pearl Catherine Smith
1892–1994
Edith Eleanor Smith
1894–1942
Esther Clara Smith
1896–1943
Bertha Ella Smith
1898–1991
Grace Elizabeth Smith
1900–1961
George Clinton Smith
1903–1969
Ernest Monroe Smith Sr.
1905–1982
Ethel Victoria Smith
1908–1986
Earl R Smith
1911–
Cecile Leona Smith
1913–1998

Sources (14)

  • Ella F Smith, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Ella Flora Dugan Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Ella F Dugan in entry for Cecile L Knorr, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

World Events (8)

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.

1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad

Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Caitlin, Aileen, Kieran, Sean Patrick, Siobhan.

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhagáin ‘descendant of Dubhagán’, a double diminutive of dubh meaning ‘small, dark one’.

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duibhginn ‘descendant of Duibhgeann’, a byname from dubh ‘black, dark’ + ceann ‘head, chief’.

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

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