Brief Life History of Mary Ann
When Mary Ann Shirley was born on 5 July 1861, in Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Thomas Charles Shirley, was 29 and her mother, Sarah Martha Maria Bubb, was 29. She married James Hansen on 12 October 1878, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Garden City, Rich, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 4 January 1890, at the age of 28, and was buried in Garden City Cemetery, Garden City, Rich, Utah, United States.
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- M A Hanson in household of James Hanson, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Ann Shirley - birth: 5 July 1861; Big Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
- Mary Ann Shirley, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867
EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: Thomas Jefferson Odekirk BIRTH 8 Jan 1840 Kirtland, Lake County, Ohio, USA DEATH 21 Jun 1867 (aged 27) Utah, USA BURIAL Garden City Cemetery Garden City, Rich County, Utah, USA Show Map PLOT Row 3 Stone 10 MEMORIAL ID 68079
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: habitational name from any of the places so named, such as Shirley (Warwickshire), Shirley in Millbrook (Hampshire), Shirley (Surrey), Shirley in Owston (Yorkshire), and Shirley (Derbyshire). The placenames probably derive from Old English scīr ‘bright’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, though some may have scīr ‘district, shire’ as the initial element if they lie on a boundary; for example, the Warwickshire place lies on the Warwickshire-Worcestershire boundary. The name Shirley first appears in Ireland in the late 17th century, following the granting of lands to a Shirley family in the barony of Farney, Monaghan.
History: William Shirley (1694–1771) was born in Sussex, England, and came to MA in 1731. He rose in the colonial service, was appointed governor in 1741, and was responsible for the British capture of the French fortress of Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island, in 1745.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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