Brief Life History of Myrta Matilda
When Myrta Matilda Murray was born on 23 November 1874, in Wingate, Coal Creek Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States, her father, John Parker Murray, was 31 and her mother, Nancy Ann Hayes, was 25. She married William Ellsworth Palmer on 22 March 1894, in Montgomery, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Kingfisher, Kingfisher, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Coal Creek Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States in 1920. She died on 15 June 1956, in Downers Grove, DuPage, Illinois, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Rock Field Cemetery, Van Buren Township, Fountain, Indiana, United States.
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- Mertie M Murrey in household of John P Murrey, "United States Census, 1880"
- Myrta, or Myrtle M. Palmer, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
- Myrta Matilda Murray Palmer, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1877 · The First Workers Strike
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Moray in northeastern Scotland, which derives from Celtic mori- ‘sea’ + treb- ‘settlement’. The founder of the Scottish house of Murray was a Fleming named Freskin who was granted Strathbrock in West Lothian and Duffus in Moray by David I. The family took its name from the region in the late 12th century.
Irish and Scottish: shortened form of McMurray .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muireadhaigh ‘descendant of Muireadhach’ a personal name meaning ‘mariner’. Occasionally it may be a shortened form of McMurray .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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