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* Eliza Williams — the ward of Col. Brandon, she is about 15 years old and bore an illegitimate child to John Willoughby.

Eliza is a slave and personal maid to Mrs. Shelby who escapes to the North with her five-year old son Harry after he is sold to Mr. Haley.

In about 1738 when Eliza was 14 years old Col. Lucas decided to move his family from Antigua to South Carolina, where he had inherited 3 plantations from his father.

Eliza was just 16 years old when she became responsible for managing Wappoo Plantation and its 20 slaves, plus supervising overseers at two other Lucas plantations, one inland producing tar and timber, and a rice plantation on the Waccamaw River.

Hopkins died three years later in October 1805, possibly due to yellow fever, leaving Eliza an eighteen-year old widow.

His second wife, married on July 13, 1849, was nineteen-year old Elvira Eliza Field ( who disguised herself at first as " Charlie J. Douglas ," Strang's purported nephew, before revealing her true identity in 1850 ).

His mother, Eliza Jane, daughter of Captain Basil Hall, RN, died before he was a year old, and he was brought up by his grandmother in France.

The Farmers ' Arms Hotel Museum at Euroa includes rooms in an old building at Seven Creeks called " Eliza Forlonge Cottage ".

He maintained a close friendship with her family and, on March 13, 1850, married her 18-year old sister Eliza Willard at Boston's Federal Street Church.

They were never seen or heard of again ... Nathaniel Killough and his wife ( and 11 month old baby girl, Eliza Jane ) escaped into a canebrake and Mrs. Samuel Killough, Mrs. Isaac Killough, Sr., Mrs. Isaac Killough, Jr., and the baby William also managed to elude the redskins.

Smith's wife gave the 11-year old slave Ellen as a wedding gift to her daughter Eliza Cromwell Smith to get the girl out of the household and remove the evidence of her husband's infidelity.

With the assistance of Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army, Stead bought 13-year old Eliza Armstrong from her parents, who lived in the Lisson Grove area of west London, and went through the procedure of preparing her for export.

Through her Jarrett learned of a 13-year old named Eliza Armstrong whose alcoholic mother Elizabeth was in need of money.

Eliza had immediately taken the train north and a couple of days later received her belongings from Clapham, although wrapped in paper parcels and not in her old trunk, which she supposes had been kept behind by Mrs Todd in a fit of pique.

He killed the man for the securities and needed an old, inconspicuous trunk in which to hide the body and that meant diverting Eliza out of the way.

In 1845, her 15-year-old sister, Eliza Julia Edwards, married Edward John Pratt, a 38-year-old British civil servant who had served in the Indian Navy.

Ellen grew up as a house servant to Eliza, which gave her privileged access to information about the area.

The 2011 action-RPG Deus Ex: Human Revolution includes among its cast a news media personality named " Eliza Cassan ", who is shown interviewing other prominent characters at various points in the game's plot.

A trivial example of the specific form of the Eliza effect, given by Douglas Hofstadter, involves an automated teller machine which displays the words " THANK YOU " at the end of a transaction.

A notable legend about Padthaway is the ghost at Padthaway Estate, her name is Eliza Lawson but she is not the Eliza Lawson who settled and built the Padthaway Estate in the 1800s.

Although she began proceedings for divorce in January 1794, it was at the insistence of Condorcet and Cabanis, who wished to protect their property from expropriation and to provide financially for Sophie and their young daughter, Louise ' Eliza ' Alexandrine.

When Pygmalion was playing at one of his theatres, because Eliza says " Not bloody likely!

Little Eliza was born the following February, which refutes persistent rumors that her mother was pregnant with her at the time of the wedding.

Eliza obviously made an impression on her teachers, as a Mr Grant, who taught art at the little school, was later to recall her as " an elegant and graceful child.

On January 22, 1829, at the age of 35, Houston married 19-year-old Eliza Allen, the daughter of the well-connected planter Colonel John Allen ( 1776 – 1833 ) of Gallatin, Tennessee, who was a friend of Andrew Jackson.

Whatever had been my feelings or opinions in relation to Eliza at one time, I have been satisfied & it is now unfit that anything should be averted to .... The only way this matter can now be overcome will be for us all to meet as tho it had never occurred, & this will keep the world, as it should ever be, ignorant that such thoughts ever were.

The character Eliza was inspired by an account given at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati by John Rankin to Stowe's husband Calvin, a professor at the school.

Among the stereotypes of blacks in Uncle Tom's Cabin are the " happy darky " ( in the lazy, carefree character of Sam ); the light-skinned tragic mulatto as a sex object ( in the characters of Eliza, Cassy, and Emmeline ); the affectionate, dark-skinned female mammy ( through several characters, including Mammy, a cook at the St. Clare plantation ); the pickaninny stereotype of black children ( in the character of Topsy ); the Uncle Tom, an African American who is too eager to please white people.

After establishing a base at Nootka, Eliza sent out several exploration parties.

He married Eliza Anne " Annarella " Warington in Messina on 7 October 1815, when they were 27 ; she was ten weeks the younger ; a portrait of them can be seen at http :// www. pinetreeweb. com / bp-admiral. htm ; this was painted while they were cataloguing the Duke of Northumberland's collection, see bibliography below.

The English twin sisters Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, who were conjoined at the back ( pygopagus ), lived from 1100 to 1134 ( or 1500 to 1534 ) and were perhaps the best-known early historical example of conjoined twins.

New Boston is located on the east bank of the Mississippi at the confluence of the Mississippi and Eliza Creek.

Boston Bay is an area of water adjacent to the Mississippi River, at the mouth of Eliza Creek, to the north of New Boston.

The marker memorializes the local legend that the real run-away slave, on whom the character of Eliza Harris of “ Uncle Tom's Cabin ” was based, stopped at the Silliven home on her way to freedom.

* Eliza Jones McKissack ( 1828 – 1900 ), founding head of music at the

When Baptist missionaries Moses and Eliza Merrill arrived in 1833, the US Indian agent let them stay temporarily at the post.

His son-in-law Alex Bolen currently operates as Chief Executive Officer, and step-daughter Eliza Bolen serves as Vice President of Licensing, at Oscar de la Renta, LLC.

Castle Rock is centered primarily on the donation land claim of Eliza and William Huntington, who settled at the location in 1852.

Any member of the audience interested in playing Eliza can find applications at the door.

Ball died at the home of his son-in-law, sculptor William Couper, wife of his daughter Eliza Chickering Ball, in Montclair.