Mary Magdalene Cleaver

Brief Life History of Mary Magdalene

When Mary Magdalene Cleaver was born on 20 November 1863, in Iowa, United States, her father, George C Cleaver, was 24 and her mother, Sarah Catherine Rutledge, was 22. She had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Otho Monroe Pruitt. She lived in Amity Township, Page, Iowa, United States in 1910. She died on 19 March 1931, in Lincoln Township, Nodaway, Missouri, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Blanchard, Page, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

Otho Monroe Pruitt
1859–1913
Mary Magdalene Cleaver
1863–1931
Rolland M Pruitt
1889–1951
Leta Josephine Pruitt
1894–1965
Elvira Etta Pruett
1897–1994

Sources (6)

  • Mary Pruitt, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Mary Magdeline Pruitt, "Missouri Deaths and Burials, 1867-1976"
  • Mary Cleaver in entry for L W Huff and Vira Pruitt Bodle, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"

World Events (8)

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

1869

Historical Boundaries: 1869: Page, Iowa, United States

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

Name Meaning

English (South Midlands and Oxfordshire): from Middle English clevere ‘one who cleaves’ (a derivative of Old English clēofan ‘to split’), hence an occupational name for someone who split wood into planks using a wedge rather than a saw, or possibly for a butcher. Alternatively, on occasion possibly a topographic name from Middle English cleve ‘bank, slope’ (from the dative of Old English clif) + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.

Americanized form of German and Dutch Klever , and perhaps also of German Kliewer .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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