Brief Life History of Mary Sophia
When Mary Sophia Birdsall was born in February 1864, in New York, United States, her father, Henry Birdsall, was 25 and her mother, Charlotte Hathaway Jenner, was 19. She married George Washington Blodgett M.D. on 18 April 1883, in Palmyra, Wayne, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Palmyra, Wayne, New York, United States in 1915 and Palmyra, Palmyra, Wayne, New York, United States for about 20 years. She died on 9 May 1942, at the age of 78, and was buried in Palmyra Cemetery, Palmyra, Wayne, New York, United States.
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- Mary S Hennesey in household of Charlotte H Birdsall, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mary Sophia Birdsall, "New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962"
- Mary Sophia Birdsall, "New York, Marriages, 1686-1980"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Birdsall, near Malton, in North Yorkshire, so named with the genitive case of Old English bridd ‘bird’ (as either a vocabulary word or a byname) + Old English halh ‘nook, recess’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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