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Eleanor Gilliss Waters 1804–1852 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 12 January 1804

Birth Location: Manokin, Somerset County, Maryland, United States of America

Death Date: 21 August 1852

Death Location: Somerset County, Maryland, USA

Father: Richard Waters

Mother: Mary Cheney

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Eleanor Gilliss Waters was born in 1804 in Manokin, Somerset County, Maryland, United States of America, the child of Richard Ezekiel Waters And Mary Day Cheney. Eleanor Gilliss Waters passed away in 1852 in Somerset County, Maryland, USA.

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Biography

  • Eleanor Gilliss Waters was born in 1804 in Manokin, Somerset County, Maryland, United States of America, the child of Richard Ezekiel Waters And Mary Day Cheney.
  • Eleanor Gilliss Waters passed away in 1852 in Somerset County, Maryland, USA.

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Eleanor Waters's Ancestors

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Eleanor Waters
1804–1852
Birth Place: Manokin, Somerset County, Maryland, United States of America
Parents
Richard Ezekiel Waters
1769–1855
Somerset County, Maryland, United States of America
Mary (Day) Cheney
1781–1845
Somerset, Maryland, United States
Grandparents
Richard (Waters (but John listed as father in) Will??)
1722–1791
Somerset Co., MD
Eleanor Gillis
1735–1812
Somerset Co, MD
Francis (Xavier) Cheney
1917–1800
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA
Elizabeth Coston
1760–1792
Somerset Co. Maryland
Great-Grandparents
Thomas Gilliss
1696–1780
Eleanor BOZMAN
1713–1778
Andrew Cheney
1720–1790
Mary Scott
1735–
Isaac Costin
1733–1776
Sarah (McCready)
1721–1775
2nd-Great-Grandparents
James Cheney
1695–1751
Mary Young)
1694–1752
Day Scott
1707–1757
Alice Ballard
1705–1744
Isaac Costen
1689–1743
Rose Smulling
1698–1744

Eleanor Waters's Timeline

2 Records

1804
12 January 1804
Birth of Eleanor Gilliss Waters in Manokin, Somerset County, Maryland, United States of America
Manokin, Somerset County, Maryland, United States of America
1852
21 August 1852
Age 48
Death of Eleanor Gilliss Waters in Somerset County, Maryland, USA
Somerset County, Maryland, USA

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    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 12 January 1804
    Event Place: Manokin, Somerset County, Maryland, United States of America

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 21 August 1852
    Event Place: Somerset County, Maryland, USA

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