Brief Life History of Margaret Samantha
When Margaret Samantha Martin was born on 17 August 1849, in Doraville, DeKalb, Georgia, United States, her father, Stephen Martin, was 51 and her mother, Sarah E. Crowley, was 37. She married Jordan Hensley Creel on 2 June 1878, in DeKalb, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in District 524, DeKalb, Georgia, United States for about 10 years and District 686, DeKalb, Georgia, United States in 1880. She died on 25 October 1928, in Doraville, DeKalb, Georgia, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Winterville, Clarke, Georgia, United States.
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- Samantha Martin in household of Stephen Martin, "United States Census, 1850"
- Margaret S. Martin, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Creel, Margret Martin, Mrs., "Georgia Deaths, 1928-1940"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866
Historical Boundaries 1866: Clarke, Georgia, United States
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.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.
English: variant of Marton .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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