Brief Life History of Esther May
Esther May Parker was born in December 1859, in Canada. She married Joseph C King on 1 March 1882, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Mariposa, Mariposa, California, United States in 1870 and Santa Ana, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1880. She died on 4 October 1915, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Ester Mc Gurik, "United States Census, 1870"
- Esther May Courtwright, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Ethel Parker, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1869
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English parker ‘park-keeper’ (Old French parquier, parchier), an officer employed to look after deer and other game in a hunting park (see Park 1). This surname is also very common among African Americans. It has also been recorded since medieval times in Ireland.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish names.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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