When Margaret Catherine Gann was born on 28 March 1841, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Adam Alfred Gann, was 22 and her mother, Jane Susanna La Follette, was 22. She married Rufus Leroy Been on 6 September 1861, in Sebastian, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Wileys Cove Township, Searcy, Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Bates Township, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States for about 20 years. She died on 19 July 1902, in Sebastian, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Liberty Cemetery, Greenwood, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States.
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Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
Irish: shortened form of McGann , from Mag Gana.
German: from the personal name Gano, or, in Austria, a short form of Candidus, a personal name from Latin candidus ‘bright, white, clear, beautiful’ (see Kann ).
German: topographic name for someone who lived near an expanse of scree, Middle High German gant.
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