Brief Life History of Martha Jane
When Martha Jane Hestand was born on 3 August 1849, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Wiseman Hestand, was 27 and her mother, Lurraine "Lurena" Grace, was 35. She married Oscar F Wicks on 1 September 1872, in Cedarville, Dade, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Cedarville, Dade, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Cedar Township, Dade, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 14 January 1929, in Lockwood, Dade, Missouri, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Cedarville, Dade, Missouri, United States.
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- Martha J Hasten in household of John W Hasten, "United States Census, 1850"
- Martha Hestand, "Missouri, Marriages, 1750-1920"
- Martha Jane Hestand Wicks, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1869
Historical Boundaries: 1869: Dade, Missouri, Unites States
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Hiestand .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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