When Elizabeth Bates Sheaff was born on 19 March 1872, in Norridgewock, Somerset, Maine, United States, her father, John Nelson Sheaff, was 41 and her mother, Mary Ellen Merrifield, was 28. She married John Gardner Merrow on 19 March 1890. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Fairfield, Somerset, Maine, United States for about 38 years. She died on 12 November 1938, at the age of 66, and was buried in Skowhegan, Somerset, Maine, United States.
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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.
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
English (Kent): from Middle English shefe ‘sheaf, bundle’ (Old English scēaf), hence possibly a nickname for a harvest worker, or for someone who paid or collected tithes, from the same term in the sense ‘tenth’ (or other proportion of produce paid as a tithe).
History: Jacob Sheafe (died 1658) was one of the founds of Boston MA. He is buried in the King's Chapel Burying Ground there.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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