Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth
When Mary Elizabeth Bare was born on 13 September 1846, in Clark, Indiana, United States, her father, William Christian Bare, was 30 and her mother, Harriet C. Kester, was 23. She married James William Arterburn on 24 December 1865, in Paris, Edgar, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Marshall Township, Clark, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Kansas Township, Edgar, Illinois, United States for about 20 years. She died on 9 September 1920, in Kansas, Edgar, Illinois, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Sharon Center, Johnson, Iowa, United States.
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- Mary Bare, "United States Census, 1850"
- Mary Elizabeth Arterburn, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Mary E. Bare, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English bar ‘bare’ (Old English bær), which in medieval times in addition to the sense ‘naked, uncovered’, also meant ‘unarmed, defenseless, unconcealed, destitute’.
English: habitational name from one of the locations or places under Barr .
Altered form of German Bär (see Baer ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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