Brief Life History of Mary Frances
When Mary Frances Wilson was born on 16 November 1849, in Indiana, United States, her father, Nathaniel D Wilson, was 26 and her mother, Rebecca Kirk, was 17. She married George Washington Owings on 12 December 1867, in Sullivan, Sullivan, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Vernon Township, Washington, Indiana, United States in 1850 and Turman Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States in 1880. She died on 18 December 1924, in Sullivan, Sullivan, Indiana, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Center Ridge Cemetery, Hamilton Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States.
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- Mary F Wilson, "United States Census, 1850"
- Mary F Wilson, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
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1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
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: from the Middle English personal name Will + patronymic -son ‘son of Will’. Will was a very common medieval short form of William . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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