Brief Life History of Lucy Catharine
When Lucy Catharine Norton was born on 14 September 1855, in Hardinsburg, Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States, her father, Bartlett Warner Norton, was 29 and her mother, Catherine Smith, was 29. She married Littleberry Maysey on 9 February 1874, in Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States. She lived in Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 6 McDaniels, Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States in 1900. She died on 22 February 1913, in Rockvale, Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Ohio, Kentucky, United States.
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Sources (15)
- Lucy Dowall in household of Mchenry Dowall, "United States Census, 1900"
- Lucey Maysey, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Lucy C. Dowell, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
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World Events (8)
1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places so called, from Old English north ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. In some cases it is a variant of Norrington .
Irish: altered form of Naughton , assimilated to the English name (see 1 above).
Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of some similar (like-sounding) original Ashkenazic surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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