When Mary Ann Cobb was born on 21 April 1848, in Attleborough, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Cobb, was 23 and her mother, Sarah Taylor, was 30. She married William Fincham on 19 February 1863, in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 8 February 1930, in Blue Rapids, Marshall, Kansas, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Blue Rapids, Marshall, Kansas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1860: Marshall, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Marshall, Kanas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
English and Scottish (Angus): from the Middle English byname or personal name Cobbe, Cobba, or its Old Norse cognate Kobbi, which are probably from an element meaning ‘lump’, used to denote a large man.
Irish: shortened form of McCobb , a patronymic from the personal name Hob, an English pet form of Robert .
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