Brief Life History of Alexander
When Alexander Ellis was born on 17 October 1876, in Newport, Cocke, Tennessee, United States, his father, Noah Ellis Sr., was 37 and his mother, Penelope "Nellie' Bailey, was 33. He married Amanda C. "Mandy" Brooks on 20 March 1899, in Cocke, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in South Point Township, Gaston, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years and Belmont, Gaston, North Carolina, United States for about 16 years. He died on 20 April 1961, in Broughton Hospital Cemetery, Morganton, Burke, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Belmont, Gaston, North Carolina, United States.
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- Alex Ellis, "United States Census, 1920"
- Alex Ellis, "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
- Alex E. Ellis, "North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994"
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1877 · Last Troops Leave
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
1877
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French vernacular form of Elias, the Latin and New Testament Greek form of Hebrew Eliyahu; see Elijah and compare Elias , Lias , Ely .
English: possibly in some instances from the Middle English female personal name Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth .
Welsh: from Elis, a shortened form of the Welsh personal name Elisse (earlier Elisedd, a derivative of elus ‘kindly, benevolent’). As usual in Welsh, the stress in Elisse is on the penultimate syllable -li-, which shifts to initial El- when the name is shortened to Elis. It later became confused with Ellis in 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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