Mary Elizabeth Chestnut was born in 1837, in Pennsylvania, United States. She married John Jackson Gantz about 1861, in Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Granville, Granville Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Granville Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. She died after 1865, in Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
Scottish (Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire) and northern Irish: altered form of Chesney , shortened from McChesney . Its assimilation to the English word chestnut is due to folk etymology, the word itself being first recorded in 1519. The surname was probably taken to Ireland at the time of the 17th-century Plantation of Ulster.
English (Norfolk): probably a variant of Chestney (see Chaney ), altered by folk etymological association with the word chestnut.
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