Mary Rebecca Plunkett

Brief Life History of Mary Rebecca

When Mary Rebecca Plunkett was born on 12 March 1887, in Montgomery, Grant, Louisiana, United States, her father, James Monroe Plunkett, was 30 and her mother, Mary Frances "Fannie" Moore, was 22. She married Ebenezer C Hays on 4 June 1905, in Montgomery, Grant, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Ward Seven, Grant, Louisiana, United States in 1900 and Ward Six, Winn, Louisiana, United States in 1910. She died on 10 May 1965, in Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ebenezer C Hays
1860–
Mary Rebecca Plunkett
1887–1965
Marriage: 4 June 1905
Bertha May Hays
1904–1985
Baby Boy Hays
1906–1906
James Ebenezer Hays
1911–1928

Sources (7)

  • Mary Hearne, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Mary Hearne, "Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875, 1894-1960"
  • Mary R Plunkett in entry for Edna Shouse, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

World Events (8)

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1890 · Woman's Suffrage

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1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed

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Name Meaning

English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a metathesized form of Plouquenet in Ille-et-Villaine, Brittany, so named from Breton plou ‘parish’ (from Latin plebs ‘people’) + Guenec, the personal name (a diminutive of guen ‘white’) of a somewhat obscure saint. As an Irish name, it has been Gaelicized as Pluincéid.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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