Brief Life History of Martha Jane
When Martha Jane McClellan was born in 1856, in Houtzdale, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John McClellan, was 22 and her mother, Mary C Rosenberry, was 22. She married William Elmer Kennedy in 1892, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 22 February 1925, at the age of 69, and was buried in Altoona, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Martha J Kennedy in household of George W Woomer, "United States Census, 1920"
- Martha Jane McClellan Kennedy, "Find a Grave Index"
- Martha Jane in entry for George Washington Woomer and Myrtle Bell Kennedy, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
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
Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Fhaolain (Scottish) and Mac Giolla Fhaoláin (Irish) ‘son of the servant (i.e. devotee) of (Saint) Faolán’, a personal name representing a diminutive of faol ‘wolf’. See also McLellan , compare Whelan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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