Brief Life History of Mary Caroline
When Mary Caroline Henson was born on 2 December 1849, in Marshall, Kentucky, United States, her father, Alfred Gain Henson, was 32 and her mother, Rebecca Ann Mills, was 29. She married Jesse Azariah Yount on 26 December 1866, in Bollinger, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in German, Bollinger, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Crooked Creek Township, Bollinger, Missouri, United States for about 30 years. She died on 3 June 1917, in Bollinger, Missouri, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Gipsy, Bollinger, Missouri, United States.
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- Mary Henson in household of Alfred G Henson, "United States Census, 1850"
- Mary Caroline Henson Yount, "Find A Grave Index"
- Caroline Henson in entry for Azeriah Yount, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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1851
Historical Boundaries 1851: Bollinger, Missouri, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal names Hen, Hend(e), or Hendy (pet forms of Henry or Hendry ) + son. Compare Henderson . Hendy may also have been derived from Middle English hendy ‘courteous’, used as a personal name (see Hendy ).
English: perhaps sometimes a variant of Hainson, a patronymic meaning ‘son of Hayne’; see Hain 2.
English: in Devon, where patronymics in -son rarely originated, perhaps a variant of Hingston .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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