Brief Life History of Grace Ann
When Grace Ann Martin was born on 31 July 1855, in Walnut Grove, Roane, West Virginia, United States, her father, William George Martin, was 27 and her mother, Minerva Jane Harmon, was 32. She married Pleasant Ellison Million on 24 November 1874, in Fleming, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 13 April 1896, in Foxport, Fleming, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Pleasureville, Fleming, Kentucky, United States.
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- Grace Martin in household of William G Martin, "United States Census, 1870"
- Graceann Martin, "West Virginia Births and Christenings, 1853-1928"
- Marriage records, 1798-1891, 1918-1951; index, 1798-1962
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1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.
English: variant of Marton .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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