Brief Life History of Mary Margaret
When Mary Margaret Burlingame was born on 20 January 1909, in Middleton Township, Columbiana, Ohio, United States, her father, Joseph Ellsworth Burlingame, was 44 and her mother, Sarah Ellen Thomas, was 43. She married Ralph Burson on 13 February 1929, in Negley, Middleton Township, Columbiana, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Middleton, Columbiana, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. She died on 25 January 1945, in Unity, Columbiana, Ohio, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Negley, Columbiana, Ohio, United States.
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- Mary Burson in household of Ralph Burson, "United States Census, 1930"
- Mary Burson, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Mary Burlingame, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1910 · The Mann Act
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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
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Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Burlingham in Norfolk ‘homestead (Old English hām) of Bærla's or Byrla's people’, or from Birlingham in Worcestershire ‘enclosure (Old English hamm) of Byrla's people’. This surname is now rare in Britain.
History: Joel Burlingame was a Methodist exhorter and lay preacher at New Berlin, NY, in the 1820s. His son Anson Burlingame, born in New Berlin in 1820, headed the first diplomatic mission to China and negotiated the Burlingame Treaty (1868).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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