When Mary Delmonia Donato was born on 17 October 1858, in Opelousas, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States, her father, Joseph Delmont Donato, was 23 and her mother, Marie Louise Lemelle, was 22. She married Matthew Schwartz on 14 May 1881, in St. Landry, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Louisiana, United States in 1870. She died on 3 February 1947, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 88.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Louisiana was readmitted into the Union.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Some characteristic forenames: Italian Antonio, Salvatore, Mario, Angelo, Domenic, Alfredo, Jose, Alberto, Armando, Cosmo, Franco, Gaetano, Gino, Rafael, Renato, Rico, Rocco, Rosario, Santo.
Spanish, Portugal, and Italian: from the personal name Donato (from Latin Donatus, past participle of donare, frequentative of dare ‘to give’). It was the name of a 4th-century Italian bishop martyred in c. 350 under Julian the Apostate, as well as various other early Christian saints, and a 4th-century grammarian and commentator on Virgil, widely respected in the Middle Ages as a figure of great learning. See also Donat .
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