Brief Life History of Mary Florence
When Mary Florence York was born in April 1870, in Van Buren, Missouri, United States, her father, James Richard York, was 27 and her mother, Maryann Elizabeth Phillips, was 35. She married Jess Edwin Meek on 21 December 1887, in Van Buren, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Election Precinct 103, Pueblo, Colorado, United States in 1930 and Election Precinct 34, Pueblo, Colorado, United States in 1940. She died on 14 May 1952, in Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Imperial Memorial Gardens, Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado, United States.
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- Mary F Meek, "United States Census, 1950"
- Mary F York, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Mary F York Meek, "Find a Grave Index"
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1872 · The First National Park
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1890
Historical Boundaries: 1890: Otero, Colorado, United States 1911: Crowley, Colorado, United States
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of York in northern England. The surname is now widespread throughout England. Originally, the city bore the Latin name Eburacum, which is probably from a Brittonic name meaning ‘yew-tree place’. This was altered by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc (from the elements eofor ‘wild boar’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’). This name was taken over by Scandinavian settlers, who altered it back to opacity in the form Jórvík or Jórk (English York, which became finally settled as the placename in the 13th century). The surname has also been adopted by Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
In some cases also an American shortened and altered form of the East Slavic patronymic Yurkovich or its Croatian, Slovak, or Slovenian variants. Compare Yurk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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