When Maria R Valette was born in 1841, in Ross, Ohio, United States, her father, David Samuel Vallette, was 30 and her mother, Maria Riggs, was 30. She married John Wesley Wakefield on 10 August 1859, in Ross, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Piketon, Seal Township, Pike, Ohio, United States in 1870 and Jefferson Township, Ross, Ohio, United States in 1880. She died on 24 January 1880, at the age of 39.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
French: topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, from a diminutive of Old French valee ‘valley’, or a habitational name from (La) Valette, the name of several places in various parts of France. Compare Vallette .
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