Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Streetman was born in September 1899, in Urania, La Salle, Louisiana, United States, her father, John Henry Streetman, was 40 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Kilcrease, was 39. She married Carter Lee Ballard on 23 December 1915, in La Salle, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in La Salle, Louisiana, United States in 1935 and Police Jury Ward 5, Bienville, Louisiana, United States in 1940. She died on 5 December 1962, in Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Forest Park Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States.
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- Mary Jane Ballard, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Streetman - birth-name: Mary Streetman
- Mary Sweetman, "Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837-1957"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Strassman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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