Brief Life History of Henrietta Anna
When Henrietta Anna Myers was born in March 1868, in Illinois, United States, her father, John W Myers, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth D. Hays, was 28. She married John W. Workman on 24 December 1889, in Decatur, Macon, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Collinsville, Madison, Illinois, United States in 1920 and Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1930. She died on 1 September 1940, in Dearborn, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 72.
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- Henrietta Meyars in household of J W Meyars, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Henrietta Anna Meyers - Government record: Census record: birth: March 1868; Illinois, United States
- Anna Myers, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1872 · The Soldiers and Sailors Monument
The Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument is a monument located in Downtown Detroit that was built in honor of those who lost their lives during the Civil War. The lowest sections of the monument have eagles with raised wings that guide the eye upward. The next section up has four male figures representing the Navy, Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery branches of the United States Army. Above them are four female figures that represent Victory, History, Emancipation, and Union. Capping the monument, an Amazon figure brandishes a sword in her right hand and a shield in her other. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
1887 · The Bagley Memorial Fountain
"The Bagley Memorial Fountain was erected in 1887 with funds from the estate of John Judson Bagley. Bagley's will ordered the construction of the drinking fountain which would provide the people of Detroit ""water cold and pure as the coldest mountain stream."" H.H. Richards was the architect for the Romanesque-style, pink granite, lionhead fountain. It is engraved with the words, ""TESTAMENTARY GIFT FOR THE PEOPLE FROM JOHN JUDSON BAGLEY A.D. MDCCCLXXXVII""."
Name Meaning
Irish (Tipperary, Limerick and Waterford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meidhir ‘descendant of Meidhir’, with post-medieval excrescent -s. Meidhir is a personal name based on meidhir ‘mirth’.
English (northern): variant of Myer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English (northern): habitational name from one or more of the minor placenames derived from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr) in the plural form, such as Melmerby Mire in Melmerby, or Mires in Docker (both Cumbria).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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