Ella's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Buchanan family tree.

Ella's Family

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Elise Gudrun Buchanan (born Bruseth)

Rexie Fields Family

Doris, Carroll, and Pat Phillips

Phillips Family

Doris, Pat and Carroll Phillips

Florence Edna (Duvall) Buchanan-Foster

Florence Edna Duvall Buchanan - Foster

Florence and Paul Leon Foster

Lula and Perry Mox Buchanan gravesite

Perry Mox Buchanan

Kenneth Buchanan

Kenneth Buchanan gravesite

Kenneth Buchanan

Bayard Buchanan

Colleen Marie Buchanan

Paul Edward Buchanan

Norman Edward Livermore

Paul & Michael Buchanan, and Norman Livermore

Norman Edward Livermore

Francis A. Buchanan

Frederick Henneman marriage certificate

Annie Margaret (Buchanan) Henneman

Annie Margaret (Buchanan) Henneman

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In 1890, in the year that Ella Buchanan was born, on January 2nd, Alice Sanger became the first female staffer to work in the White House. She was hired as a stenographer and, as such, took dictation.

In 1905, Ella was just 15 years old when the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.

In 1951, when she was 61 years old, on April 5th, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (husband and wife) were sentenced to death for treason. They were executed on June 19th. American citizens, they were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Their two young sons were adopted by a high school teacher and his wife.

In 1961, by the time she was 71 years old, on May 5th, Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr., made the first manned Project Mercury flight, MR-3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7. He was the second man to go into space, the first was Yuri Gagarin - a Soviet cosmonaut.

In 1970, in the year of Ella Buchanan's passing, on April 10th, Paul McCartney announced that he was leaving the Beatles. (John Lennon had previously told the band that he was leaving but hadn't publicly announced it.) By the end of the year, each Beatle had his own album.