When Mary J. Couch was born on 13 December 1860, in Hume, Allegany, New York, United States, her father, Calvin Couch, was 28 and her mother, Maryetta A Skiff, was 28. She married Charles Wright Thayer on 24 January 1882, in Belfast, Belfast, Allegany, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Britton, Marshall, South Dakota, United States in 1900 and Nordland Township, Marshall, South Dakota, United States for about 10 years. She died on 29 November 1944, at the age of 83, and was buried in Britton Cemetery, Britton, Marshall, South Dakota, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881: Day, Dakota Territory, United States 1885: Marshall, Dakota Territory, United States 1889: Marshall, South Dakota, United States
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
English (Cornwall and Devon): nickname from Middle English couch(e) ‘hump, hunch’, used for a hunchback. In Cornwall and Devon it is usually pronounced as Cooch.
English (Cornwall and Devon): variant of Gooch .
English (Cornwall and Devon): from Middle English coche, couche ‘bed, couch, tablecloth’ (Old French couche, culche). It could have been a metonymic occupational name for someone who made such items or a nickname for a lazy individual. Alternatively, it could have been applied to someone who produced couchwork, a luxurious embroidery in which gold or silver thread and jewels were sewn into satin or silk robes.
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