Mary Marvella Spurgeon

Brief Life History of Mary Marvella

When Mary Marvella Spurgeon was born on 2 July 1895, in Newton Township, Pike, Ohio, United States, her father, William Henry Spurgeon, was 44 and her mother, Salina Alice Monroe, was 19. She married Paul Marcus Reading on 24 December 1918, in Clark, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Springfield, Clark, Ohio, United States for about 1 years. She died on 28 December 1986, in Clark, Ohio, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Fletcher Chapel Cemetery, Oxtoby, Clark, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Paul Marcus Reading
1898–1944
Mary Marvella Spurgeon
1895–1986
Marriage: 24 December 1918
Norman Lewis Reading
1919–1975
Donald Henry Reading
1921–2006
Marion Marcella Reading
1923–2000
Ruth Carolyn Reading
1926–1964
Robert Reading
1932–
Lawrence Edwin Reading
1934–2013
Patricia Ann Reading
1936–2009

Sources (20)

  • Mary M Reading, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Mary M. Spurgeon, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
  • Mary M Spurgeon Reading, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

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.

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

Name Meaning

English (Essex): apparently a variant of Spurden, itself a possible nickname from Middle English spore, spure (Old English spora, spura) ‘spur’ or the derived verb sporen ‘to urge, incite’ + daunce ‘dance’. Alternatively, the first element may be spurnen, spornen ‘stumble, trip, kick’ or ‘spurn, reject’ with assimilation of the first -n- giving Spordaunce. However, the change in the medial consonant of Spurgeon is difficult to explain without an intermediary Spurdion (or something similar), which is not on record and would be an irregular development of Spurden. The name may have been influenced by confusion with Pridgeon and Spridgeon but the evidence for this is slight.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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