Brief Life History of Margaret Elizabeth
When Margaret Elizabeth Waugh was born on 17 February 1842, in Sugar Creek Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States, her father, Milo Waugh, was 38 and her mother, Elizabeth Kious, was 31. She married Alexander Marion Butcher on 22 October 1859. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Big Creek Township, Henry, Missouri, United States for about 30 years and Bethlehem Township, Henry, Missouri, United States in 1910. She died on 11 October 1915, in Henry, Missouri, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Carpenter Cemetery, Chilhowee Township, Johnson, Missouri, United States.
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- Margaret Butcher in household of Alexander Butcher, "United States Census, 1870"
- Margaret Elizabeth Waugh Butcher, "Find A Grave Index"
- Margaret E Waugh in entry for Alexander Butcher, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Middle English wale ‘foreigner, Britone’ (in a form reflecting the final consonant of Anglian Old English walh), a word applied by the Northumbrians to Strathclyde Britons, in the same way that Gaelic Gall was applied by Highlanders to Lowlanders. The word usually denoted speakers of Celtic or Romance languages.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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