Brief Life History of Elizabeth Mary
When Elizabeth Mary Carey was born on 21 April 1840, in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, United States, her father, James Benajah Cary, was 29 and her mother, Mary Bacon Adams, was 34. She married Henry Belcher Geer about 1861, in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States. She died in Scotland, Windham, Connecticut, United States, and was buried in New Scotland Cemetery South, Scotland, Windham, Connecticut, United States.
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- Mary E Geer in household of Henry B Geer, "United States Census, 1880"
- Elizabeth Cary, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Elizabeth Mary Carey Geer, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · Slavery is Abolished
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ciardha, a midland surname meaning ‘descendant of Ciardha’, a personal name derived from ciar ‘dark, black’. See Kerry .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhiachra ‘son of Fiachra’.
English: from Carey Barton in Devon or Castle Cary, Lytes Cary, Cary Fitzpaine, or Babcary, all in Somerset, named for the rivers on which they stand; both river names probably derive from the Celtic root car- ‘love, liking’, perhaps with the meaning ‘pleasant stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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