Brief Life History of Margaret Malinda
When Margaret Malinda Farris was born on 12 July 1838, in Maury, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Farris, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth Skipper, was 31. She married William McBurton Scott on 28 February 1856, in Maury, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Civil District 2, Grundy, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 1, Maury, Tennessee, United States in 1910. She died on 13 September 1921, in Maury, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Maury, Tennessee, United States.
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- Margaret Scott in household of Ranson D Anderson, "United States Census, 1910"
- Margaret Malinda Farriss, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Margaret Farris, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: variant of Fergus , in which the Gaelic gh sound has been dropped rather than being altered to g. Compare Farrish , Ferris .
Probably also English: variant of Farrar . The name is quite common in southeastern England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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