Brief Life History of Sillinda M.
When Sillinda M. Shaw was born on 4 December 1857, in Detroit, Somerset, Maine, United States, her father, Fayette Shaw, was 33 and her mother, Lavantia Ford, was 32. She married William Frederic Kimball on 23 December 1880. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1910 and Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1920. She died in 1924, at the age of 67, and was buried in Newton Cemetery, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Silinda Shaw in household of Fayette Shaw, "United States Census, 1860"
- Sillinda M. Shaw, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Sillinda Mason Kimball, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
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
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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