Brief Life History of Malinda
When Malinda Benedict was born on 16 February 1843, in Brookville, Halton, Ontario, Canada, her father, Ezra A Benedict, was 36 and her mother, Edith Parish, was 29. She married William Franklin Wood on 18 March 1860, in Clark, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Harrison Township, Scotland, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Saylor, Polk, Iowa, United States in 1880. She died on 13 November 1909, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Pinehill Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States.
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- Malinda Wood in household of William Wood, "United States Census, 1860"
- F. Benedick, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Malinda Wood, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Polk, Iowa, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English, German, and Dutch: from the personal name Benedict, from Latin Benedictus ‘blessed’. This owed its popularity in the Middle Ages chiefly to Saint Benedict of Norcia (c. 480–550), who founded the Benedictine order of monks at Monte Cassino and wrote a monastic rule that formed a model for all subsequent rules. No doubt the meaning of the Latin word also contributed to its popularity as a personal name, especially in Romance countries. Occasionally the English surname may derive from Latin benedicite ‘bless (you)’, perhaps given as a nickname to an habitual user of the expression. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed the German variant Benedikt and many cognates from other languages, e.g. Hungarian Benedek , Slovenian Benedik (see Benedick ), and also their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Italian Benedetti .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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