When Mary 'Polly' Appleby was born on 8 January 1796, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William James Appleby, was 54 and her mother, Agnes "Nancy" McCurdy, was 32. She married David Dryden about 1818, in Bedford, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 6 September 1857, in Coles, Illinois, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Pleasant Prairie Cemetery, Pleasant Grove Township, Coles, Illinois, United States.
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English (northern): habitational name from any of various places, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Cumbria, named from Old English æppel or Old Norse epli ‘apple’ + Old Norse bȳ ‘farm’.
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