When Mary Elizabeth Dalay was born in June 1848, in Jackson, Ohio, United States, her father, Jacob Delay, was 29 and her mother, Eliza Elizabeth Thompson, was 34. She married Joseph Thorpe on 17 July 1870, in Adams, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Burrell Township, Decatur, Iowa, United States in 1910 and Decatur, Iowa, United States in 1925. She died on 1 May 1928, in Davis City, Decatur, Iowa, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Municipal Cemetery, Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1855: Decatur, Iowa, United States
In 1861, Denver City was incorporated into the territory as an official city.
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.
Americanized form of Hungarian Szalay and of Slovak, Croatian, Czech, and Slovenian Salaj, which is a Slavicized form of the Hungarian name.
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