When Avries Merrit Weed was born on 3 March 1847, in Morris, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Orson Truman Weed, was 43 and his mother, Matilda Messinger, was 36. He married Lucy Elizabeth Penhallow about 1869, in Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Barkhamsted, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1910 and Winchester, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 22 May 1928, at the age of 81, and was buried in Forest View Cemetery, Winsted, Winchester, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
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Post office est. June 6, 1849
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
English: nickname for an irascible person, from Middle English wed(e) ‘mad, crazy’. The name is also possibly from the Middle English noun wede in one of its senses, ‘weed’ or ‘garment, habit’.
Americanized form of Dutch Weeda .
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