Brief Life History of Mary Ann
When Mary Ann Skinner was born in 1833, in Wisconsin, United States, her father, John Birch Skinner Sr, was 44 and her mother, Elizabeth Dierdorff, was 39. She married Alvin Blanchard in October 1851. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Custer Township, Lyon, Minnesota, United States in 1900 and Balaton, Lyon, Minnesota, United States in 1905. She died on 7 November 1920, in Rock Lake Township, Lyon, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Russell Cemetery, Russell, Lyon, Minnesota, United States.
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- Mary O Cline, "Minnesota State Census, 1905"
- Mary A. Blanchard, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
- Mary A Cline, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1836
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin - Sept 3, 1836 Treaty Treaty of the Cedars was concluded on the Fox River on September 3, 1836. The Menominee Nation ceded nearly 4 million acres of land for the following items every year for twenty years: $3,000 worth of food provisions, 2,000 lbs. of tobacco, 30 barrels of salt, agricultural supplies, and $500 per year. (Wisconsin Historical Society)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for someone who stripped the hide from animals to be used in the production of fur garments, or to be tanned for leather, from Middle English skinner ‘skinner’, an agent derivative of Middle English skin(n) ‘hide, pelt’ (Old Norse skinn).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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