When Sylvella D. Worcester was born in January 1858, in Columbia, Washington, Maine, United States, her father, Moses Alden Worcester III, was 47 and her mother, Diadema Booth Smith, was 43. She married James Richard Gray Jr. on 25 November 1880, in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Maine, United States in 1870. She died on 14 January 1949, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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English: habitational name from the city of Worcester. The placename means ‘the Roman town of the Weogoran’, from an Old English tribal name Weogoran (genitive plural Weogorena) + Old English ceaster ‘city, Roman town’.
History: Rev. William Worcester emigrated from England and settled in Salisbury, MA, before 1638. He had many prominent descendants, including Noah Worcester (born 1758) and Samuel Worcester (born 1770), both NH Congregational clergymen, and Joseph Emerson Worcester (1784–1865), a noted lexicographer, geographer, and historian.
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