When Martha Elizabeth Cranford was born in January 1872, in Marshall, Alabama, United States, her father, John Calvin Cranford, was 21 and her mother, Susan Frances Dukes, was 22. She married William Marcus Davis on 5 January 1891, in Marshall, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 10 daughters. She lived in Plainview, Hale, Texas, United States for about 5 years and Justice Precinct 8, Denton, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 14 February 1920, in Cherokee, Alabama, United States, at the age of 48.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Historical Boundaries: 1876: Hale, Texas, United States
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: habitational name from any of several places called Cranford, for example in the counties of Devon, Middlesex, Essex, and Northamptonshire (Cranford Saint Andrew and Cranford Saint John), named with Old English cran ‘crane’ + ford ‘ford’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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