When Mary Elizabeth Owen was born on 11 December 1846, in Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine, United States, her father, Alonzo Owen, was 31 and her mother, Rachel Rosetta Warburton, was 29. She married Eugene Grant Ridley on 26 November 1866, in Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1880. She died on 17 May 1909, in Estherville, Emmet, Iowa, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Estherville, Emmet, Iowa, United States.
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The Great Seal of the State of Iowa was created in 1847 and depicts a soldier standing in a wheat field surrounded by symbols including farming, mining, and transportation with the Mississippi River in the background. An eagle overhead bears the state motto.
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Emmet, Iowa, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Welsh: from the personal name Owain, from Latin Eugenius (see Eugene ). This Welsh personal name is cognate with Old Irish Eogán, see 2 and 3.
Scottish and Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eoghain ‘son of Eoghan’. See McEwen .
Irish: from Ó hEoghain, ‘descendant of Eoghan’. See Ewen .
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