Brief Life History of Alberta F "Bertha"
When Alberta F "Bertha" Mooney was born on 25 January 1852, in Bryan, Georgia, United States, her father, Dr. Martin Dickerson Mooney, was 38 and her mother, Sarah Amelia Holmes, was 28. She married Elijah Frank Walden on 21 December 1882, in Chatham, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 12 January 1936, in Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, United States.
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- Alberta F Mooney in household of Martin Mooney, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Alverda F Campbell - Government record: birth-name: Alverda F Campbell
- Bertha Mooney, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
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World Events (8)
1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maonaigh, ‘descendant of Maonach’, a personal name derived from maoineach ‘wealthy, precious’. Meaney is a variant development of the same name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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