Brief Life History of Henry Ware
When Henry Ware Eliot was born on 25 November 1843, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, his father, Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot, was 32 and his mother, Abigail Adams Cranch, was 26. He married Charlotte Champe Stearns on 27 October 1868, in Lexington, Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 8 January 1919, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
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- Henry Elliott in household of W G Elliott, "United States Census, 1850"
- Henry Elliott in household of W G Elliott, "United States Census, 1850"
- Lexington, Mass. Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths to Jan 1, 1898, Marriages.
Spouse and Children
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1843–1929 Female
Children (8)
1869–1943 Female
1871–1956 Female
1874–1926 Female
1877–1963 Female
1879–1947 Male
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World Events (7)
1846
Age 3
1863
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1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
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Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Elliott .
History: Andrew Eliot, a shoemaker of East Coker, Somerset, England, who emigrated to Boston, MA, in 1670, was the founder of a distinguished American family which included the poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), who was born in St. Louis, MO. The earliest Eliot recorded in North America was John Eliot (1604–90), a Puritan missionary known as the ‘Indian Apostle’, who was born in Hertfordshire and sailed to Boston in 1631. He later settled in Roxbury, MA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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