Ogarita Elizabeth Bellows

Female23 October 1859–12 April 1892

Brief Life History of Ogarita Elizabeth

When Ogarita Elizabeth Bellows was born on 23 October 1859, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Charles Still Bellows, was 32 and her mother, Izola Martha Mills, was 22. She married William Ross Willson on 12 October 1879, in Burrillville, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. She lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1860 and Burrillville, Providence, Rhode Island, United States in 1880. She died on 12 April 1892, in Binghamton, Broome, New York, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Port Dickinson, Dickinson, Broome, New York, United States.

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Family Time Line

Alexander L. Henderson
1850–1920
Ogarita Elizabeth Bellows
1859–1892
Marriage: about 1884
Izola Louise Forrester
1878–1944
Beatrice Henderson
1885–1961
Charles Henderson
1887–1888

Sources (18)

  • Ograita E Bellows in household of Geneva Webster, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Oganita Elizabeth Bellows, "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
  • Ogarita Elizabeth Wallingford, "Rhode Island, Marriages, 1724-1916"

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  • Marriage
    about 1884United States
  • Children (3)

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    World Events (8)

    1860 · Abraham Lincoln Elected President

    Age 1

    Abraham Lincoln was Elected President of the United States in November of 1860

    1862 · US Naval Academy

    Age 3

    The US Naval Academy was moved to Newport, Rhode Island from its original in Annapolis, Maryland on May 9, 1862.

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

    Age 11

    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

    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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