Brief Life History of Mourning
When Mourning Jones was born on 28 February 1863, in Ashland, Boone, Missouri, United States, her father, Robert Hudson Martin, was 42 and her mother, Nancy Elizabeth Harris, was 35. She had at least 2 sons with Nathan Tyree Martin. She lived in Cedar Township, Boone, Missouri, United States for about 70 years. She died on 13 February 1953, in Boone, Missouri, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in New Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, Ashland, Boone, Missouri, United States.
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- Morrison Martin, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mourning Martin, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Mourning Martin Martin, "Find A Grave Index"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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