When Emma Jane Myers was born in 1855, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Myers, was 26 and her mother, Permelia Ann Brace, was 19. She married John Davidson Jackson on 11 November 1875, in West Greene, Greene Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Summit Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Kinsley Township, Edwards, Kansas, United States in 1900. She died on 8 April 1914, in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Waterford, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Kansas is the 34th state
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Irish (Tipperary, Limerick and Waterford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meidhir ‘descendant of Meidhir’, with post-medieval excrescent -s. Meidhir is a personal name based on meidhir ‘mirth’.
English (northern): variant of Myer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English (northern): habitational name from one or more of the minor placenames derived from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr) in the plural form, such as Melmerby Mire in Melmerby, or Mires in Docker (both Cumbria).
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