Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Forrest was born on 16 January 1846, in Grundy, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Jefferson Forrest, was 30 and her mother, Irena Hurt, was 28. She married James L Andrews in 1861, in Chariton, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Triplett, Chariton, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Brookfield, Linn, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 29 October 1909, at the age of 63, and was buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Brookfield Township, Linn, Missouri, United States.
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- Mary Forrest in household of James B Coy, "United States Census, 1860"
- Mary F. Forrest Andrews Walker, "Find a Grave Index"
- Mary Forest in entry for Milton L. Walker, "Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937"
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1859
Historical Boundaries: 1859: Linn, Missouri, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Chariton, Missouri, United States
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a royal forest, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper or worker in one. Middle English forest was not, as today, a near-synonym of wood, but referred specifically to a large area of woodland reserved by law for the purposes of hunting by the king and his nobles. The same applied to the European cognates, both ancient Germanic and Romance. The English word is from Middle English forest ‘forest’, Old French forest, Late Latin forestis (silva). This is generally taken to be a derivative of foris ‘outside’; the reference was probably to woods lying outside a settlement. On the other hand, Middle High German for(e)st has been held to be a derivative of Old High German foraha ‘fir’ (see Forster ), with the addition of a collective suffix.
Irish: this name is also frequently attested in Ireland, where it may be a variant of Forrestal .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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