HELP! flag female ancestor  Almira  SKEELS

  (b. 22 July 1798 Lanesborough, Massachusetts, USA   d. 1 January 1870 Cambridge, New York, USA )  

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Almira SKEELS was born 22 July 1798 in Lanesborough, Massachusetts, USA

Almira SKEELS was the child of David SKEELS   and   Lydia POWELL

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Almira  married  Ellery STAPLES .  The couple had (at least) 1 child. Ellery STAPLES  was born 4 March 1784 in Massachusetts, USA.  Ellery died 10 April 1861 in Cambridge, New York, USA.  Ellery was the child of Jonathan STAPLES and Rachel HOLBROOK.

Almira SKEELS died 1 January 1870 in Cambridge, New York, USA.
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Ellery STAPLES was the child of Jonathan STAPLES and Rachel HOLBROOK




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birth1798 Birth
22 July 1798
Lanesborough, Massachusetts, USA (Berkshire)
NewsThe War of 1812 was a conflict between the United States and Great Britain, lasting from 1812 to 1815. It was primarily fueled by issues such as trade restrictions due to Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American sailors into the British Navy, and British support of Native American tribes against American expansion. The war ended with the Treaty of Ghent, restoring pre-war boundaries but resolving few of the initial disputes.
1820 Birth of Child
Almira STAPLES was born 20 February 1820, Dorset, Vermont, USA (East, North, South) (Freedleyville)

Almira was 21 years old.
marriage1835 Marriage of Child
Almira STAPLES married 25 September 1835, Danby, Vermont, USA (Danby Four Corners) (Scottsville) to Joel COLVIN
NewsFrom the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.
Invention 1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
1861 Death of Spouse/Partner
Ellery STAPLES died 10 April 1861, Cambridge, New York, USA
News1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
death1870 Death
1 January 1870
Cambridge, New York, USA

She died at the age of 71.
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Did You Know?America - Did you know? An estimated one in ten of us could be a blood relative to one of the original 102 pilgrims who arrived aboard the Mayflower in 1620.
Did You Know?The name 'Massachusetts' originates with native Americans in the Massachusetts Bay area (from the language of the Algonquian nation). The name translates roughly as 'at or about the great hill.' (statesymbolsusa.org)

1620 - 1627 - Plymouth Colony, New England
1628 - 1686 - Massachusetts Bay Colony
1686 - 1689 - Dominion of New England
1689 - 1692 - Massachusetts Bay Colony
1692 - 1775 - Province of Massachusetts Bay
1776 - 1788 - Crown Colony of Massachusetts Bay
February 6, 1788 - Massachusetts becomes 6th U.S. state

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