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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Historical Boundaries: 1855: Sangamon, Illinois, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
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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