Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Overholt was born on 1 February 1854, in Wayne, Ohio, United States, her father, Abraham Overholt, was 27 and her mother, Catharine Ault, was 25. She married James H Keagle on 7 October 1875. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Cleon Township, Manistee, Michigan, United States in 1910 and Missoula, Missoula, Montana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 6 July 1933, at the age of 79, and was buried in Missoula Cemetery, Missoula, Missoula, Montana, United States.
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- Mary J Kengla in household of Arthur C Kengla, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mary Jane Overholt, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Mary Overholt in entry for Floyd W Hatch and Verna Belle Keagle, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1858
Historical Boundaries 1858: Walla Walla, Washington Territory, United States 1858: Spokane, Washington Territory, United States 1860: Missoula, Washington Territory, United States 1863: Missoula, Idaho Territory, United States 1864: Missoula, Montana Territory, United States 1889: Missoula, Montana, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of Swiss German and German Oberholtzer and probably also of German Oberholz, a topographic name from Middle High German ober ‘above’ (or German ober- ‘upper’) + holz ‘wood’.
Norwegian: habitational name from the farm name Overholt, a compound of over ‘upper’ and holt ‘grove, wood’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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