Brief Life History of Mary Frances
When Mary Frances Gaar was born on 18 September 1850, in Illinois, United States, her father, John Powell Gaar, was 41 and her mother, Elizabeth Shoemaker, was 37. She married George Gabriel Lambert on 1 January 1868, in Whiteside, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Highland Township, Guthrie, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Waconda Township, Caddo, Oklahoma, United States in 1920. She died on 3 August 1935, in Hinton, Caddo, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Hinton, Caddo, Oklahoma, United States.
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Sources (7)
- Mary E Gaar in household of George W Lambert, "Iowa State Census, 1895"
- Mary Frances Gaar Lambert, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mary F Gaar in entry for W L Lambert and Lucy Jane Bower, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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1851
Historical Boundaries: 1851: Guthrie, Iowa, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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.
Name Meaning
Austrian German: nickname for a person who was ready and willing (to do a task), from Middle High German gar ‘ready, prepared’.
Perhaps also Dutch (Van de Gaar): topographic name from Middle Dutch gader, gaer ‘gate’, in a habitational sense e.g. from De Gader near Hasselt.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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