Edwina Alfretta Danforth

1858–9 September 1900 (Age 42)
Island Pond, Brighton, Essex, Vermont, United States

The Life Summary of Edwina Alfretta

When Edwina Alfretta Danforth was born in 1858, in Island Pond, Brighton, Essex, Vermont, United States, her father, Ephraim Danforth, was 27 and her mother, Lucy Amanda Emery, was 21. She married Odlin Sanborn on 20 March 1875, in Brighton, Essex, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Stark, Coos, New Hampshire, United States in 1880 and Casco, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1900. She died on 9 September 1900, in Raymond, Cumberland, Maine, United States, at the age of 42.

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Family Time Line

Robert York
1852–1930
Edwina Alfretta Danforth
1858–1900
Marriage: 22 September 1877
Gertrude Addie York
1878–1950
William Robert York
1880–
Mary Ella York
1885–1912
Dorothy Alvetta York
1889–1918
James Gly York
1892–1962

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    22 September 1877Vermont, United States
    • Children

    (5)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (4)

    World Events (8)

    1863
    Age 5
    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
    1864 · St. Albans Raid
    Age 6
    St. Albans Raid took place on October 19, 1864. It was a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory. Confederate soldiers that were in Canada raided the town of St. Albans killed one person and robbed three banks.
    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
    Age 12
    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

    Name Meaning

    (1997: 1818;2007: 3350; 2010: 4239)English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): variant of Danford .History: Nicholas Danforth, a man of considerable property, emigrated c. 1634 with his children to Cambridge, MA, from Framlingham, Suffolk, England, after the death of his wife Elizabeth. He was elected to various political offices in the colony. His son Thomas (1623–99) was admitted as a freeman in 1643 and was named treasurer of Harvard College in the 1650 charter granted that institution.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Danford

    Sources (29)

    • Legacy NFS Source: Adwina Alfreder Danforth - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Addie Alreder Danforth
    • Addie A York in household of Robert York, "United States Census, 1900"
    • Addie Danford in entry for James G York and Mabel Doughty, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"

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