Brief Life History of Matilda Evelyn
When Matilda Evelyn Crosby was born in February 1858, in Mississippi, United States, her father, Samuel Crosby, was 30 and her mother, Letha Ann Smith, was 26. She married Charles Henry Bryars on 11 December 1879, in Baldwin, Cullman, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Perdido, Baldwin, Alabama, United States in 1900 and Stockton, Baldwin, Alabama, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1949, at the age of 91, and was buried in Stockton, Baldwin, Alabama, United States.
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Sources (16)
- M E Crosby in household of S Crosby, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Matida E. Crosby - Individual or family possessions: birth: 1857; Quitman, Mississippi, United States
- Matilda Crosby, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
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1861
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old Norse kross ‘cross’ + bȳ ‘farm, settlement’ in Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmorland, North Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire.
Irish: surname adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Mac an Chrosáin (see McCrossen ).
History: The surname of the Irish family of Crosbie is ultimately derived from providing the chief bards to the O’Mores, Chiefs of Leix: crosán means ‘bard’ or ‘satirist’. Pádraic Mac Crosáin or Mac An Chrosáin took the Anglicized name Patrick Crosbie c. 1583.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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