Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Weeks was born on 15 October 1853, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, her father, William Augustus Weeks, was 22 and her mother, Nancy Miranda Sutphin, was 19. She married Malcolm Leonard Webb about 1872, in Patrick, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Smith River District, Patrick, Virginia, United States in 1880. She died on 23 May 1927, in Patrick, Virginia, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Patrick, Virginia, United States.
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- Mary J Webb in household of Malkam L Webb, "United States Census, 1880"
- Mary Jane Weeks, "Virginia, Births and Christenings, 1853-1917"
- Mary J. Weeks, "Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940"
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1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Wicks .
Americanized form of Norwegian and Swedish Vik .
History: This surname was brought to North America independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One of the earliest on record is Leonard Weeks, who emigrated from Somerset, England, to Portsmouth, NH, some time before 1656. — William Weeks, recorded in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, MA, from 1653 onward, was probably a cousin or other relative of the John Wickes mentioned at Wickes .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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