Margaret Ann Harlan

Brief Life History of Margaret Ann

When Margaret Ann Harlan was born on 28 March 1840, in Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States, her father, Moses Harlan, was 53 and her mother, Mary Ann Butler, was 42. She married Rosseter Freeman Schoonover on 1 January 1857. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Kewanee, Henry, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Wethersfield Township, Henry, Illinois, United States in 1920. She died on 9 October 1923, in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Kewanee, Henry, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Rosseter Freeman Schoonover
1833–1906
Margaret Ann Harlan
1840–1923
Marriage: 1 January 1857
Mary Eunice Schoonover
1857–1933
Oline Mahoney Schoonover
Joseph Ward Schoonover
1860–1940
Lee Baker Schoonover
1862–1939
Adolfus Alonzo Schoonover
1864–1920
Etta Schoonover
1868–1872
John Rosseter Schoonover
1873–1950
Grace Evaline Schoonover
1876–1970
Ruea Ann Schoonover
1879–1973
Olive Alzina Schoonover
1882–1973
Bathsheba Schoonover
1887–1887

Sources (34)

  • Margery Schobaroner, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Margery Schoonover, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • Margery Schoonover, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1855

Historical Boundaries: 1855: Henry, Illinois, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of several minor places called in Old English with hār ‘gray’, hara ‘hare’, or hær ‘rock, tumulus’ + land ‘tract of land, estate, cultivated land’, notably Harland in Kirkbymoorside (North Yorkshire). This surname has also been present in northern Ireland (Armagh and Antrim) since the 17th century, but is now rare in Britain.

History: Harlan County, KY was named for Major Silas Harlan (died 1782). John Marshall Harlan, born in KY in 1833, became a US Supreme Court justice.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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