Amelia Sophia Mayhew

Femalebefore 1836–

Brief Life History of Amelia Sophia

When Amelia Sophia Mayhew was born before 1836, in Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Melven Mayhew, was 45 and her mother, Lucy Webster, was 38.

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Family Time Line

Melven Mayhew
1790–1877
Lucy Webster
1797–1877
Thomas Mayhew
1813–1820
Fidelia Mayhew
1827–
Francis Wilmott Mayhew
1832–
Amelia Sophia Mayhew
1836–
Aurelia Mayhew
–
Dwight Mayhew
1815–1874
Caroline Mayhew
1819–
Truman Foster Mayhew
1828–
Harriet Newell Mayhew
1831–1905

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    World Events (3)

    1836 · Remember the Alamo

    Age 0

    Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

    1846

    Age 10

    U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

    1863

    Age 27

    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

    Name Meaning

    English (East Anglia): from the French and Middle English personal name Maheu (Old French Mahieu), a common Norman form of Matthew . Its common Middle English pet form was Maw, by syncope of the medial -he-; see under Maw 1. See also May and Mahy .

    Americanized form of French Mailloux .

    History: Thomas Mayhew (1593–1682) came to Medford, MA, from Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, c. 1632, and subsequently moved to Watertown, MA. In 1642 he established a settlement on Martha's Vineyard, with his son Thomas, who was the first English missionary to the Indians of New England.

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

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