Brief Life History of Polly Anna
When Polly Anna Ramsey was born on 5 November 1857, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States, her father, Richard Pierceall Ramsey, was 37 and her mother, Louisa Van Winkle, was 33. She married William Franklin McCracken on 31 December 1880, in Elk, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Union Center Township, Elk, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States in 1900. She died on 8 July 1909, in Anadarko, Caddo, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Anadarko, Caddo, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Polley A Ramsey in household of Richard Ramsey, "United States Census, 1870"
- Polly A Ramsey, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
- Polly Anna Ramsey McCracken, "Find A Grave Index"
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1859
Historical Boundaries: 1859: Nebraska Territory, United States 1861: Colorado Territory, United States 1861: Boulder, Colorado Territory, United States 1876: Boulder, Colorado, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
Scottish, English, and Irish (Antrim): habitational name from Ramsey (Huntingdonshire, now part of Cambridgeshire), from Old English hramsa ‘wild garlic’ + ēg ‘island, low-lying land’. Alternatively, the name may also arise from Ramsey (Essex), probably from the same etymology as the Huntingdonshire placename. However, this is unlikely to be the source of the Scottish surname. This form of the surname is also common in Ireland, where it is probably in most if not all cases an altered form of Scottish Ramsay .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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