Brief Life History of Mary M.
When Mary M. Seeley was born in 1847, in Washington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Lucius G Seeley, was 35 and her mother, Wealthy W Barden, was 27. She married George W Merrill in 1872, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. She lived in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States in 1860. She died on 15 December 1932, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford Center, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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- Mary M Seeley in household of Lucius Seeley, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary M Seeley - Government record: birth: April 1848; Washington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
- Mary M. Seeley Merrill, "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955"
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1848 · Slavery is Abolished
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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
English: nickname for a person with a cheerful disposition, from Middle English seli ‘happy, fortunate’ (Old English sǣlig, from sǣl ‘happiness, good fortune’). The word was also occasionally used as a female personal name during the Middle Ages. The sense ‘pitiable’, which developed into modern English silly, is not attested before the 15th century. See also Selman .
Altered form of German Seele , respelled to preserve the bisyllabic pronunciation of the German name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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