Mary Parson

Brief Life History of Mary

When Mary Parson was born on 9 January 1791, in New Jersey, United States, her father, Mathias Parson, was 30 and her mother, Mercy Shaw, was 28. She married Robert Johnson on 13 December 1808, in Montgomery, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Fairfield Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States in 1830 and Lauramie Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States in 1850. She died on 11 November 1869, in Tippecanoe Township, Carroll, Indiana, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Johnson Cemetery, Conarroe Cemetery, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Johnson
1779–1830
Mary Parson
1791–1869
Marriage: 13 December 1808
Marie Johnson
1810–1861
Mahala Johnson
1827–1863
Lydia Johnson
1812–1901
Abner Johnson
1814–1885
Jane Johnson
1816–1908
Matthias Johnson
1818–1853
Phoebe Johnson
1821–
Mary Johnson
1822–
Robert Johnson
1823–1899
John Johnson
1825–1851
Abel Abraham Johnson
1828–1875
Joseph Johnson
1830–1904

Sources (4)

  • Mary Johnson, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Polly Parson, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
  • Mary Parson Johnson, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

1804

Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr had been political enemies with intense personal differences for quite some time. Burr accused Hamilton of publicly disparaging his character during the elections of 1800 and 1804. On the morning of July 11, the two politicians went to Weehawken, New Jersey to resolve the disputes with an official duel. Both men were armed with a pistol. Hamilton missed, but Burr's shot fatally wounded Hamilton, who would die by the following day. The duel custom had been outlawed in New York by 1804, resulting in Burr fleeing the state due to an arrest warrant. He would later be accused of treason, but ultimately be acquitted.

1812

War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

Name Meaning

English: status name or nickname from Middle English persone, persoun ‘priest, parson’ (Old French persone). The status of medieval bearers of the surname is uncertain. Priests were generally known by a habitational name rather than by a surname denoting their role in the church. They were not allowed to marry, but doubtless many had illegitimate children, some of whom may have been given Parson as a surname. Some of the original bearers may have been given it as a nickname (compare Priest , Bishop , Monk ) or it may have been an occupational name for someone who worked for the parson (a shortened form of Personesservaunt perhaps).

English: in northern England and the North Midlands especially, it is often a variant of Pearson . For the change in vowel compare Parr .

Americanized form of Swedish Pärsson, Pehrsson (see Pehrson ) or Persson , patronymics from vernacular shortened forms of the personal name Peter .

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

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