Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Lucas was born in 1877, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, her father, William Abraham Lucas, was 24 and her mother, Martha Adeline Hubbard, was 33. She married William Avery Lewis in 1895, in Humphreys, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Scottsville, Bibb, Alabama, United States for about 30 years and Election Precinct 19 Blocker, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1960, in Bibb, Alabama, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States.
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- Mary Boyd, "United States Census, 1940"
- Mary Jane Boyd, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
- Mary Jane Leecor in entry for Loman Ernest Boyd and Bertha Foster Hinton, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
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World Events (8)
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch: from the Latin personal name Lucas (Greek Loukas) ‘man from Lucania’. Lucania is a region of southern Italy thought to have been named in ancient times with a word meaning ‘bright’ or ‘shining’ (compare Lucio ). The Christian name owed its enormous popularity throughout Europe in the Middle Ages to Saint Luke the Evangelist, hence the development of this surname and many vernacular derivatives in most of the languages of Europe. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Loukas , Hungarian Lukács (see Lukacs ), German, Dutch, etc. Lukas , Polish Łukasz, Czech and Slovak Lukáš, Czech Lukeš, Slovenian and Croatian Lukež (see Lukes ). Compare Luke .
Scottish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lùcais (see McLucas ).
History: Jacques Lucas dit Lépine from Port-en-Bessin-Huppain in Calvados, France, married Françoise Capel in Trois-Rivières, QC, in 1653.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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