Mary Elizabeth Workman

Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth

When Mary Elizabeth Workman was born on 12 December 1854, in Loami, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, her father, Simon Peter Workman, was 34 and her mother, Sarah or Sally Jane Taylor, was 31. She married Samuel Harbour on 30 December 1869, in Sangamon, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1860. She died on 25 July 1928, in Woodside, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Campbell Cemetery, Loami Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Harbour
1849–1917
Mary Elizabeth Workman
1854–1928
Marriage: 30 December 1869
Peter D. Harbour
1870–1899
Sally Jane Harbour
1875–1934
Levi P Harbour
1872–1957
Samuel M Harbour
1877–1908
Joseph J Harbour
1879–1960
Mary Harbour
1881–1911
Mannie Harbour
1882–1971
Minnie Harbour
1882–1977
Caroline Harbour
1884–1886
William B. Harbour
1886–1960
Cynthia May Harbour
1888–1974
Mildred Louisa Harbour
1889–1976
Henry Nelson Harbour
1892–1938
Rose A. Harbour
1894–1981
George Harbour
1896–1910
Frank Samuel Harbour
1898–1980

Sources (30)

  • Mary C Harbour, "United States, Census, 1920"
  • Mary Elizabeth Harbour, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
  • Mary E Workman, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"

World Events (8)

1855

Historical Boundaries: 1855: Sangamon, Illinois, United States

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 (Gloucestershire): ostensibly an occupational name for a laborer, from Middle English werkman ‘laborer, craftsman’, also ‘customary tenant’ (Old English weorcmann). A customary tenant was a person allowed to hold land in exchange for carrying out a certain service.

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

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