Mary Viola Cheney

Brief Life History of Mary Viola

When Mary Viola Cheney was born on 31 January 1886, in English Township, Iowa, Iowa, United States, her father, James Martin Cheney, was 39 and her mother, Clarissa Lucinda Metzinger, was 35. She married Millard Filmore Claypool on 21 January 1906, in Iowa, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Iowa Township, Iowa, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Fillmore Township, Iowa, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. She died on 1 July 1956, in Williamsburg, Iowa, Iowa, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Millersburg Cemetery, Millersburg, Iowa, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

Millard Filmore Claypool
1885–1959
Mary Viola Cheney
1886–1956
Marriage: 21 January 1906
Flossie Ina Claypool
1906–1970
Mary Lillian Claypool
1918–1982

Sources (17)

  • Mary Claypool, "Iowa State Census, 1915"
  • Mary V. Cheney, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
  • Mary Viola Claypool, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"

World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

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1890 · Woman's Suffrage

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1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Chaney with the same etymology as in 2 below.

French: topographic name for someone who lived by or in an oak wood, from Old French chesnai ‘oak grove’ (from chesne ‘oak’), or a habitational name from any of several places called (Le) Cheney, e.g. in Haute-Savoie, named with this word. Compare Chesney .

French Canadian: altered form of French Chesnay or Chenay, topographic names with the same meaning and etymology as in 2 above, or habitational names from (Le) Chesnay or (Le) Chenay, names of several places in the northwestern part of France, based on Old French chesnai ‘oak grove’. Compare Chenette and Chenier 2.

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

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