Brief Life History of Madison Chain
When Madison Chain McMahill was born on 26 July 1850, in Warren, Illinois, United States, his father, Thomas Jefferson McMahill, was 23 and his mother, Maria G Vosburg, was 22. He married Frances Marie Sloan on 8 February 1871, in Warren, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Mason Township, Taylor, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Mitchell, Davison, South Dakota, United States in 1910. He died on 23 October 1925, in Elkton, Brookings, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Elkton, Brookings, South Dakota, United States.
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Family Time Line
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- Matthew McMahel in household of Jefferson McMahel, "United States Census, 1870"
- Madison C Mc Mahill, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Madison C McMahill, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1862
Historical Boundaries: 1862: Brookings, Dakota Territory, United States 1889: Brookings, South Dakota, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Scottish or Irish: possibly anAnglicized form of Gaelic Mac Micheáil, usually Anglicizedas McMichael , or of a patronymic from apersonal name found in Ó Machail (which is Anglicized asMackle).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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