Brief Life History of Mary Alice
When Mary Alice Faunce was born on 7 July 1871, in Cumberland, Illinois, United States, her father, Noah Moody Faunce, was 20 and her mother, Hannah Catherine Remer, was 19. She married Alvin Thomas Byrne Sr on 23 March 1890, in Montrose, Effingham, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Mill Shoals, White, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Töv, Mongolia in 1910. She died on 18 January 1954, in Broadwell, Logan, Illinois, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Lincoln, Logan, Illinois, United States.
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- M Alice Byrne, "United States Census, 1930"
- Mary Faunce Byrne in entry for Alvin Thomas Byrne, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Alice Byrne in household of A T Byrne, "United States Census, 1900"
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1872 · The First National Park
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1872
Prior to town¬ ship organization in 1872, that part lying northeast of Skillet Fork belonged to Burnt Prairie Precinct.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English faun, foun (Old French faon, foun) with genitival or, more likely, post-medieval excrescent -s, meaning ‘cub, young animal, young fallow deer’, perhaps for a lively, frisky youth. The same word was occasionally used as a personal name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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