Brief Life History of Margaret Jane
When Margaret Jane Lynn was born on 31 March 1861, in Illinois, United States, her father, Pitts Lynn, was 39 and her mother, Mary Polly S Miles, was 40. She married George W Dusch on 29 December 1881, in Pope Township, Fayette, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 1, Ballard, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Ballard, Kentucky, United States in 1930. She died on 26 May 1941, in La Center, Ballard, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Providence-Needmore Cemetery, Needmore, Ballard, Kentucky, United States.
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- Margaret Dusch in household of George W Dusch, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Lynn - Government record: birth-name: Margaret Lynn
- Margaret Lynn, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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before 1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhloinn and Ó Fhloinn (see Flynn ).
Scottish: variant of Lyne 3.
English: habitational name from any of several places so called in Norfolk, in particular King's Lynn, an important center of the medieval wool trade. The placename is probably from an Old Welsh word cognate with Gaelic linn ‘pool, stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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