Brief Life History of Lemira A.
When Lemira A. Barrett was born on 26 April 1849, in Merrimack, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Townes Barrett, was 29 and her mother, Laurena Fretts, was 30. She married Andrew Issachar Goodhue on 7 April 1870, in Merrimack, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States in 1870 and Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States for about 40 years. She died on 24 October 1929, in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States.
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- Larina Barrett in household of Charles H Campbell, "United States Census, 1870"
- Lemira A. Barrett, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
- Lemira Barrett Goodhue, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1864 · St. Albans Raid
St. Albans Raid took place on October 19, 1864. It was a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory. Confederate soldiers that were in Canada raided the town of St. Albans killed one person and robbed three banks.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English and Irish (of Norman origin): probably a nickname for a quarrelsome person, from Old French barat, Middle English bar(r)at, bar(r)et(te) ‘trouble, distress’, later ‘deception, fraud; contention, strife’. Through Norman settlement it also became common in Ireland, where it was Gaelicized as Baróid (Munster) and Baréid (Connacht).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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