Brief Life History of Martha Jane
When Martha Jane Grandbois was born on 18 July 1876, in Saint Louis, Sierra, California, United States, her father, Louis Severe Guibert Dit Grandbois, was 47 and her mother, Isabel Brown Johnson, was 40. She married William Wilford on 2 July 1895, in Carson City, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Vallejo Township, Sonoma, California, United States for about 30 years and Petaluma Judicial Township, Sonoma, California, United States in 1940. She died on 17 October 1960, in Novato, Marin, California, United States, at the age of 84.
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Sources (12)
- Jane Wilford in household of William Wilford, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Martha Jane "Mattie"or "Jennie" Grandbois - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth: 18 July 1876; Saint Louis, Sierra, California, United States
- Mattie J Wilford, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Marcell, Yvon, Amedee, Laurent, Lucien.
French: topographic name from grand ‘large, big’ + bois ‘wood, copse’, or a habitational name from any of several places in France called Grandbois or (Le) Grand Bois ‘(the) big wood’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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