Brief Life History of Mary Adda
When Mary Adda Pletcher was born on 28 December 1879, in Sugar Grove, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Samuel Pletcher, was 39 and her mother, Amanda Henry, was 32. She married Amos Harrison Barnhart on 29 April 1907, in Greene, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Springhill Township, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920 and Morris Township, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. She died on 28 December 1959, in East Finley, East Finley Township, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Greene County Memorial Park, Morgan Township, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Mary Barnhart in household of Amos Barnhart, "United States Census, 1940"
- Mary Addie Pletcher, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- Mary Adda Pletcher Barnhart, "Find A Grave Index"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Pletscher .
History: In part, this is the Americanized form of the name of a Swiss Mennonite family Pletscher , that came to North America from the Palatinate, Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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