Brief Life History of Mary Flavia
When Mary Flavia Durant was born on 28 April 1885, in Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, John Thomas Durant, was 32 and her mother, Caroline Elizabeth Wilson, was 27. She married Fred George Baxter on 9 May 1904, in Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Sonora Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 13 July 1956, in Montebello Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 71.
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- Marey Baxter in household of Fred Baxter, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mary Floe Baxter, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Mary Flavia Durant Baxter, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and French: variant of Durand .
English: variant of Darwent, a habitational name from Derwent in Derbyshire (now submerged by the Ladybower Reservoir) or Darwen in Lancashire, both named from rivers called Derwent, or, less frequently, from similarly named rivers in Cumbria, Durham, Northumbria, and Yorkshire, from a Celtic river name meaning ‘river where oak-trees grow abundantly’.
Altered form of French Doiron .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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