Brief Life History of Mary Ann
When Mary Ann Funston was born on 30 July 1828, in Templecarn, County Donegal, Ireland, her father, Matthew Funston, was 33 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Reid, was 30. She married Daniel Argent on 18 February 1840, in Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 8 December 1851, in Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States, at the age of 23, and was buried in Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States.
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- Mary Ann Funston Argent, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mary Ann Funston in entry for Thomas Funston Argent, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
- findagrave.com Mary Ann Funston Argent unknown - 8 Dec 1851
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1832 · Black Hawk War
"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."
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.
Name Meaning
English and northern Irish: perhaps a variant of Foulston (a habitational name from Fulstone, Yorkshire), with assimilation of l-n to n-n. This name is quite common in Ireland (Fermanagh, Derry, Donegal, Tyrone), but seems to have been brought from northern England in the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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