Brief Life History of Minerva
When Minerva Mann was born in March 1851, in Breathitt, Kentucky, United States, her father, William Warren Mann, was 42 and her mother, Rhoda Howard, was 38. She married Samuel Lovely in 1868, in Jackson, Breathitt, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 4, Magoffin, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Magisterial District 4 Meadows, Magoffin, Kentucky, United States in 1920. She died after 1920.
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- Lovely, "United States Census, 1900"
- Nerva Mans in entry for George Lovely and Louverna Mans, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Manervy Lovly in household of Samuel Lovly, "United States Census, 1870"
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World Events (8)
1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a fierce or strong man, or for a man contrasted with a boy, from Middle English, Middle High German man, German Mann ‘man’. In some cases it may have arisen as an occupational name for a servant, from the medieval use of the term to describe a person of inferior social status. The Jewish surname can be artificial.
English and German: from the ancient Germanic personal name Manno, found in Old English as Mann or Manna. This originated either as a byname or else as a short form of a compound name containing the element man ‘man’, such as Hermann .
English: habitational name from the Isle of Man.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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