Brief Life History of Mary Ann
When Mary Ann White was born on 22 October 1819, in Meigs, Ohio, United States, her father, John S White, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Raplyea Boudinot, was 22. She married Thomas Ellis on 2 March 1845, in Athens, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 3 September 1890, in Dover Township, Athens, Ohio, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Nye Cemetery, Chauncey, Dover Township, Athens, Ohio, United States.
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- Mary A. Ellis in household of Thomas Ellis, "United States Census, 1880"
- Mary Ann White, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Mary Ann White Ellis, "Find A Grave Index"
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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