Mary Jane Lay
1836–1913 (Age 76)
Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
The Life of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Lay was born on 26 June 1836, in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, Gibbons Lay, was 40 and her mother, Emily Allen, was 34. She married Willis H Huntley on 15 November 1855. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 24 January 1913, at the age of 76.
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Family Time Line
Mary Jane Lay
1836–1913
Willis H Huntley
1825–1901
Marriage: 15 November 1855
Mary Annie T. Huntley
1862–
Spouse & Children
1836–1913Female
- Willis H Huntley
1825–1901Male
MARRIAGE
15 November 1855
15 November 1855
children
(1)
- Mary Annie T. Huntley
1862–Female
Parents & Siblings
1796–Male
1801–Female
siblings
(1)
1836–1913Female
World Events (8)
1846
Age 10
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · Slavery is Abolished
Age 12
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
1863
Age 27
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
1 English: variant of Lee .2 Scottish: reduced variant of McClay .3 French: habitational name from places so named in Loire, Meurthe-et-Moselle, and Pyrénées-Atlantique.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Sources (2)
- Mary Jane Lay in entry for Mary Annie T. Huntley, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Mary Jane Lay in entry for Mary-Annie T Huntley, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
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