Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Eaves was born in June 1680, in Northumberland, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, William Jonathan Eaves, was 40 and her mother, Flora Elizabeth Graves, was 38. She died before 1780.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Eaves - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Mary Eaves
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1775
Patrick Henry made his "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" speech in Richmond Virginia.
Name Meaning
English
topographic name or habitational name from Middle English atte evese (Old English efes ‘edge’), for someone who lived ‘at the edge’ (i.e. at the border or edge of a wood or hill) or at a place so named, particularly Eaves, in Chorley (Lancashire). Compare Reeves .
variant of Eve , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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