When Mary Ann Totten was born on 12 April 1836, in Crawford, Indiana, United States, her father, William Whitman Totten, was 23 and her mother, Eliza Burgess, was 21. She married Amos B. Rhodes on 27 August 1857, in Crawford, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Jefferson Township, Pike, Indiana, United States in 1900 and Franklin Township, Owen, Indiana, United States in 1910. She died on 30 August 1920, in Algiers, Jefferson Township, Pike, Indiana, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Algiers, Jefferson Township, Pike, Indiana, United States.
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The State of Indiana was near bankruptcy in 1841 due to the inability to repay interest incurred for the Massive Internal Improvement Act. The state liquidated much of its public works. Many of the projects were handed over to the state’s creditors as a way to reduce debt. Only two of the eight proposed infrastructure projects were completed by the creditors.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English:
variant of Tutin. This name derives either from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Tot(t)ing or Tut(t)ing, pet forms of Old English Tot(t)a or Tut(t)a; or is a topographic name from an unrecorded Middle English word toting ‘lookout place’, a derivative of Old English tōtian ‘to peep out, stick out’.
habitational name from Totnes (Devon), derived from the Old English personal name Totta + Old English næss ‘promontory, headland’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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