Martha Lavinia Bailey

26 October 1865–1930 (Age 64)
Wood, West Virginia, United States

The Life Summary of Martha Lavinia

When Martha Lavinia Bailey was born on 26 October 1865, in Wood, West Virginia, United States, her father, William Franklin Bailey, was 26 and her mother, Mary Jane Hoy, was 23. She married Albert W. Ellis on 3 December 1906, in Athens, Ohio, United States. She lived in West Virginia, United States in 1865 and Williams District, Wood, West Virginia, United States for about 50 years. She died in 1930, in Wood, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 65.

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Family Time Line

Albert W. Ellis
1867–1953
Martha Lavinia Bailey
1865–1930
Marriage: 3 December 1906

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    3 December 1906Athens, Ohio, United States

    • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (4)

    World Events (8)

    1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
    Age 1
    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.
    1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
    Age 2
    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 The Amendment was later repealed.
    1886
    Age 21
    Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

    Name Meaning

    English: status name for a steward or official, from Middle English bailli ‘manager, administrator’ (Old French baillis, from Late Latin baiulivus, an adjectival derivative of baiulus ‘attendant, carrier, porter’).English: habitational name from Bailey in Little Mitton, Lancashire, named with Old English beg ‘berry’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.English: occasionally a topographic name for someone who lived by the outer wall of a castle, from Middle English (Old French) bailli ‘outer courtyard of a castle’ (Old French bail(le) ‘enclosure’, a derivative of bailer ‘to enclose’). This term became a placename in its own right, denoting a district beside a fortification or wall, as in the case of the Old Bailey in London, which formed part of the early medieval outer wall of the city.

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

    Possible Related Names

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    Sources (13)

    • Martha Bailey in household of William Bailey, "United States Census, 1870"
    • Martha L. Bailey, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
    • Martha L Bailey in household of M J Bailey, "United States Census, 1900"

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