When Anna Martha Miles was born on 23 January 1857, in Jordan Township, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, George Ingels Miles, was 22 and her mother, Elizabeth Ordelia Leonard, was 22. She married Sylvester Curry on 10 June 1875, in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 6 October 1906, in Marron, Ferguson Township, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 49.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Mile + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or from its other Old French form Miles, a derivative of ancient Germanic Milo, based on the element mil, from mel ‘good, generous’. The Old French oblique case form was Milon (see Milon 1). Compare Millen and Millson .
English: variant, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, of Myhill , from a vernacular form of the Biblical name Michael . Miles Coverdale, the translator of the Bible, when in Germany, called himself Michael Anglus (‘the Englishman’).
Irish (Louth and Kilkenny): when not the same as 1 or 2, it is sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuire, see Myles .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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