Brief Life History of Mary Aurelia
When Mary Aurelia Stoddard was born on 26 July 1852, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, her father, Sheldon Stoddard, was 22 and her mother, Julia Jane Hunt, was 20. She married Nelson Jabez Sleppy on 29 July 1871, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Lakeport, Lake, California, United States in 1880 and Chino Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1900. She died on 5 June 1920, in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Mary A Sleppy in household of Mabel E Herbert, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mary A Sleppy, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Mary A Stoddard, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1853
Historical Boundaries: 1853: San Bernardino, California, United States
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 and Scottish: occupational name for someone who looked after a stud of horses, from Middle English and Older Scots stod(e), stud(e) ‘establishment where horses were bred’, ‘herd of stallions or mares’ + herd(e) ‘herdsman’.
English: variant of Stothard, an occupational name for a keeper of cattle or horses, from Middle English stot ‘steer, bullock’ or ‘horse’ + herd(e) ‘herdsman’. The name was probably confused with Stodeherd ‘keeper of stud-horses’ (see above).
History: The Stoddard family of Boston, MA, was introduced by Anthony Stoddard (1600–1686), who settled there in 1639. Solomon Stoddard (1643–1728/9) was a prominent Congregational clergyman in MA, the grandfather of Jonathan Edwards, and progenitor of many noted descendants.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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