Brief Life History of Margaret Rebbeca
When Margaret Rebbeca Ramsey was born in 1855, in Boone, Iowa, United States, her father, John Ramsey, was 23 and her mother, Esther Ann Paxton, was 21. She married Freedom Prentice or Prentiss Cooper on 8 January 1874, in Boone, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Yell Township, Boone, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Greene, Iowa, United States in 1895. She died in 1929, in Woodward, Dallas, Iowa, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Woodward, Dallas, Iowa, United States.
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- Margret R Cooper, "Iowa State Census, 1895"
- Iowa, Births and Christenings Index, 1800-1999
- Margaret R. Ramsey, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
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1859
Historical Boundaries: 1859: Dallas, Iowa, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Scottish, English, and Irish (Antrim): habitational name from Ramsey (Huntingdonshire, now part of Cambridgeshire), from Old English hramsa ‘wild garlic’ + ēg ‘island, low-lying land’. Alternatively, the name may also arise from Ramsey (Essex), probably from the same etymology as the Huntingdonshire placename. However, this is unlikely to be the source of the Scottish surname. This form of the surname is also common in Ireland, where it is probably in most if not all cases an altered form of Scottish Ramsay .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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