Brief Life History of Ida Penny
When Ida Penny Stephenson was born on 8 June 1897, in Willow Springs, Wake, North Carolina, United States, her father, James Edward Stephenson, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Jane Mary Elizabeth (Tish) Myatt, was 23. She married Walter Lee Ellis on 7 December 1919, in Durham, Durham, North Carolina, United States. She died on 15 March 1963, in Durham, Durham, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
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- Ida Ellis, "United States Census, 1930"
- Ida Stephenson, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Ida Stephenson Ellis, "North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Steffensen or Stephensen . Compare Stevenson 1.
English (Durham): variant of Stevenson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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