Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Lay was born on 26 June 1836, in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, Gibbons Lay, was 61 and her mother, Emily Allen, was 34. She married Willis H Huntley on 15 November 1855. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Agawam, Teton, Montana, United States in 1900 and Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1913. She died on 24 January 1913, at the age of 76, and was buried in Feeding Hills, Agawam, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Mary J Lay, "United States Census, 1850"
- Mary Jane Lay, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Lay, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · Slavery is Abolished
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
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Lee .
Scottish: shortened form of McClay .
German: habitational name from any of the places so named, in the Rhineland near Koblenz and in Bavaria, from lay(h), a word meaning ‘stone, rock, slate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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