Mary M Burlingame

Brief Life History of Mary M

When Mary M Burlingame was born on 11 November 1826, in Hiramsburg, Morgan, Ohio, United States, her father, Asa Franklin Burlingame Sr., was 40 and her mother, Sarah Ellen Severance, was 35. She married William Paxton Posten on 12 December 1846, in Morgan, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Equality Township, Miller, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Saline Township, Miller, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 25 May 1892, in Eldon, Miller, Missouri, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Salem Cemetery, Saline Township, Miller, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Paxton Posten
1823–1898
Mary M Burlingame
1826–1892
Marriage: 12 December 1846
Thomas B Posten
1847–
Malinda Josephine Posten
1847–1906
Elizabeth R Posten
1865–
Emma C Posten
1849–1850
William O or D Posten
1851–1852
Sarah A Posten
1853–1877
Asa B Posten
1856–1882
Mary Blanche Posten
1859–1925
Henry H Posten
1862–1896
Rebecca Elizabeth Posten
1865–1888
Hason A. S. Posten
1870–1871

Sources (7)

  • Mary Posten in household of Wm Posten, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Mary Burlingame, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
  • Mary M. Burlingame Posten, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1837

Historical Boundaries: 1837: Miller, Missouri, United States

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

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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