Brief Life History of Margaret Elizabeth
When Margaret Elizabeth Galpin was born on 3 June 1877, in Hamilton, Caldwell, Missouri, United States, her father, David Eli Galpin, was 47 and her mother, Sarah Ann Sweat, was 41. She married Charles Edgar Crocker on 13 October 1895, in Daviess, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 9 daughters. She lived in Sheridan Township, Daviess, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Marion Township, Newton, Missouri, United States for about 30 years. She died on 28 July 1963, in Diamond, Newton, Missouri, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Diamond, Newton, Missouri, United States.
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- Margaret Crocker in household of Charles Crocker, "United States Census, 1930"
- Margaret Crocker, "Find A Grave Index"
- Margaret E Galpin in entry for Charles Crocker, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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1878
Historical Boundaries: 1878: Center, Newton, Missouri, United States; 1883: Diamond, Newton, Missouri, 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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English (Dorset, of Norman origin): nickname from Old French galopin, galpin, apparently a diminutive of the Old French noun galop or the base of the verb galoper, and therefore denoting ‘one who gallops’. It may have been used of a gentleman who habitually rode his horse at a gallop or of a professional rider or messenger. The noun galopin is recorded only in Modern French, with the sense ‘errand boy’, and in modern English (late 16th century) with the unexpected sense ‘kitchen boy, turnspit’ but perhaps also ‘errand boy, page boy’. However, medieval bearers of the English surname were men of property, indicating that galopin was originally used of men with a considerably higher status than an errand boy.
French: variant of Galopin or Galpin, with the same sense as 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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