Brief Life History of Anna J
When Anna J Harlan was born on 7 May 1848, in Windsor, Henry, Missouri, United States, her father, James T Harlan, was 30 and her mother, Margaret Wolf, was 26. She married Isaac Van Nuys on 27 December 1866, in Wayne, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Franklin, Dalton Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States in 1910 and New Garden MM, Wayne, Indiana, United States in 1920. She died on 7 October 1929, in Wayne, Indiana, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Bethel, Franklin Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States.
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- Anna J Van Nuys in household of Robert Boren, "United States Census, 1920"
- Anna J Harlan, "Indiana, Marriages, 1811-1959"
- Anna Jane Harlan Van Nuys, "Find A Grave Index"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Wayne, Indiana, United States
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: habitational name from any of several minor places called in Old English with hār ‘gray’, hara ‘hare’, or hær ‘rock, tumulus’ + land ‘tract of land, estate, cultivated land’, notably Harland in Kirkbymoorside (North Yorkshire). This surname has also been present in northern Ireland (Armagh and Antrim) since the 17th century, but is now rare in Britain.
History: Harlan County, KY was named for Major Silas Harlan (died 1782). John Marshall Harlan, born in KY in 1833, became a US Supreme Court justice.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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