Brief Life History of Gabrila Augusta
When Gabrila Augusta Shiner was born on 17 March 1837, in Dublin, Jackson Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States, her father, George Huse Shiner, was 39 and her mother, Rachel Curlet Pierce, was 36. She married Homer Joslyn Blaisdell on 9 December 1855, in Erie, Whiteside, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Geneseo Township, Tama, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 21 June 1912, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Los Angeles Odd Fellows Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Gabrilla Skinner in household of George Skinner, "United States Census, 1850"
- G.A. Shiner, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Gabrilia Augusta Shiner Tracy, "Find A Grave Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1849
EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER: Martin Winslow BIRTH unknown DEATH 1849 BURIAL Los Angeles Odd Fellows Cemetery Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA MEMORIAL ID 80715564 · View Source
1858 · A House Divided
Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Shinner, an occupational name from southern Middle English schinner ‘skinner’, an agent derivative of Middle English schin ‘skin’ (Old English scinn), used for someone who stripped the hide from animals, to be used in the production of fur garments or to be tanned for leather. Compare Skinner .
Americanized form of German Scheiner .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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