Brief Life History of Mary Catherine
When Mary Catherine Oxley was born on 8 December 1851, in Bertram Township, Linn, Iowa, United States, her father, Oliver Hazard Perry Oxley, was 36 and her mother, Catherine C Campbell, was 29. She married George Washington Grove on 24 November 1874, in Bertram, Linn, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Bertram, Linn, Iowa, United States in 1870 and Franklin Township, Linn, Iowa, United States in 1887. She died on 9 December 1891, at the age of 40, and was buried in Mount Vernon, Linn, Iowa, United States.
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- Mary Padey in household of Perry Oxley, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mary C. Oxley, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Katherine Oxley, "Washington Deaths and Burials, 1810-1960"
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1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
1858
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Linn, Iowa, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Ox Lee in Hepworth (Yorkshire), or from other places called Oxley, such as that in Staffordshire. The placenames derive from Old English oxa ‘ox’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Possibly also an Americanized form of South German Öchsle (see Oechsle ). Compare Axley .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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