When Mary Catherine Reals was born on 3 June 1856, in Nebraska, United States, her father, George Reals, was 42 and her mother, Sophia Mathews, was 32. She married George Marion Merritt on 6 July 1873, in Taylor, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Fremont Township, Page, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Plum Creek Township, Butler, Nebraska, United States in 1900. She died on 11 September 1903, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Valparaiso Cemetery, Valparaiso, Saunders, Nebraska, United States.
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Earliest Known Burial: 1858
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Some characteristic forenames: Italian Amedeo, Antonio, Amerigo, Angelo, Arcangelo, Arduino, Enio, Gino, Giovanni, Guido, Nino.
Italian: patronymic or plural form of Reale .
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