Brief Life History of Lydia M
When Lydia M Bentley was born about 1852, in New York, United States, her father, Layton Bentley, was 39 and her mother, Harriet Miller, was 29. She married William Oscar Perdue on 22 January 1874. She lived in Ripley, Chautauqua, New York, United States for about 25 years. She died on 13 September 1881, at the age of 30.
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- Lydia M Perdue in household of Oscar W Perdue, "New York State Census, 1875"
- Legacy NFS Source: Lydia M Bentley - Government record: birth: about 1852; New York, United States
- Lydia Bentley in household of Thomas Clenans, "United States Census, 1860"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
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 any of various places, the chief of which are in Derbyshire, Essex, Hampshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and East and South Yorkshire. The placename is from Old English beonet ‘bent grass’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of South German Bentele or of its Swiss German or South German cognates Bandle and Bandli.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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