Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Murray was born on 5 July 1901, in Moore, Butte, Idaho, United States, her father, William Henry Murray, was 41 and her mother, Edith Laura Stinson, was 21. She married Charles Elmer Jennings on 1 August 1918, in Mackay, Custer, Idaho, United States. She lived in North Pleasanton, Atascosa, Texas, United States in 1930 and Justice Precinct 8, Atascosa, Texas, United States for about 5 years. She died on 12 January 1963, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Mount McCaleb Cemetery, Mackay, Custer, Idaho, United States.
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- Mary Glenn, "United States Census, 1930"
- Mary Murray, "Idaho, Birth Index, 1861-1911"
- Mary Murray, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1962"
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World Events (8)
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
1913
Historical Boundaries: 1913: Atascosa, Texas, United States 1961: Pleasanton, Atascosa, Texas, United States
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Moray in northeastern Scotland, which derives from Celtic mori- ‘sea’ + treb- ‘settlement’. The founder of the Scottish house of Murray was a Fleming named Freskin who was granted Strathbrock in West Lothian and Duffus in Moray by David I. The family took its name from the region in the late 12th century.
Irish and Scottish: shortened form of McMurray .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muireadhaigh ‘descendant of Muireadhach’ a personal name meaning ‘mariner’. Occasionally it may be a shortened form of McMurray .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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