When Minerva A Swainston was born on 11 July 1858, in Norfolk, Ontario, Canada, her father, Joseph Swainston, was 44 and her mother, Mary Jane Irons, was 32. She married Ezra Milks on 26 March 1879, in Fife Lake, Fife Lake Township, Grand Traverse, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Walsingham, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada in 1861. She died on 13 January 1919, in Grand Traverse, Michigan, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Kingsley, Paradise Township, Grand Traverse, Michigan, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Oldest grave seen in the memorial list
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English (Durham and North Yorkshire): habitational name from Swainston in Elwick (Durham), from the Old Norse personal name Sveinn (genitives Sveines) + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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