Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Burnes was born in 1853, in Humphreys, Tennessee, United States, her father, William Wilton Burns, was 58 and her mother, Martha Gillard White, was 45. She married Reuben Lewis from 1870 to 1872, in Humphreys, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Scottsville, Bibb, Alabama, United States for about 10 years and Election Precinct 2 Scottsville, Bibb, Alabama, United States in 1930. She died in 1933, at the age of 80.
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- Mary J Lonis in household of Hogan B Lonis, "United States Census, 1930"
- Mary Jane Burns, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Mary J. Lewis, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
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1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Burns .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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