Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Boone was born on 1 June 1848, in Franklin County, Virginia, United States, her father, Stephen Edward Boone, was 28 and her mother, Mahala Oyler, was 27. She married Henry Plunkett on 7 September 1871, in Franklin, Albemarle, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Bonbrook, Franklin County, Virginia, United States in 1880. She died on 1 May 1887, in Franklin County, Virginia, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Franklin County, Virginia, United States.
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- Mary Boon in household of Stephen Boon, "United States Census, 1850"
- Mary J. Plunkett, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Mary Jane Boon, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"
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World Events (6)
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.
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
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Bohon in La Manche, France, of obscure etymology.
English (of Norman origin): from Middle English bon(e), boun, Old French bon ‘good’. Compare Bone 1.
Dutch: variant of Boon .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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