Brief Life History of Mary Abigail
When Mary Abigail Milledge was born on 12 November 1849, in Lee, Iowa, United States, her father, Benjamin Jacob Milledge, was 25 and her mother, Martha Marella Haskins, was 24. She married William Ridgeway on 25 September 1867, in Mahaska, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in New Sharon, Mahaska, Iowa, United States in 1885 and What Cheer, Keokuk, Iowa, United States in 1915. She died on 22 October 1923, in Mahaska, Iowa, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in New Sharon Friends Cemetery, New Sharon, Mahaska, Iowa, United States.
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- Mary A Florence, "Iowa State Census, 1915"
- Mary A. Milledge Stone, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Mary Abigail Florence in the U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s
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1854
Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
1854
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
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
English: habitational name from Milwich in Staffordshire, so named from Old English myln ‘mill’ + wīc ‘dwelling, specialized farmstead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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