Martha Thrasher

Brief Life History of Martha

When Martha Thrasher was born on 12 September 1781, in Frederick, Maryland, United States, her father, Benjamin Thrasher, was 28 and her mother, Martha Ridgely, was 31. She married John Lyeth on 20 October 1803, in Frederick, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Martinsburg, Berkeley, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Berkeley, Virginia, United States in 1860. She died in March 1870, at the age of 88.

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Family Time Line

John Lyeth
1782–
Martha Thrasher
1781–1870
Marriage: 20 October 1803
Robert Lee Lyeth
1804–
Kesiah Lyeth
1811–1840
Martha Lyeth
1813–
Elizabeth Lyeth
1814–1840
Keziah Leyth
1816–1876
Jemina Lyeth
1817–1840
Sarah Ridgely Lyeth
1805–1872
Mary Drusilla Lyeth
1816–1883
Jimmima Leythe
1817–
Benjamin Samuel Lyeth
1821–1892

Sources (21)

  • Martha Leith in household of Sarah Tabler, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Martha Thrasher - birth:
  • Martha Treschern, "Maryland, Marriages, 1666-1970"

World Events (8)

1783 · A Free America

The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.

1788 · Becomes the 10th state

On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state. 

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name from Middle English thressher ‘thresher’, a derivative of Old English therscan, threscan, thryscan ‘to thresh’.

Americanized form (translation into English) of German Drescher .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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