Brief Life History of Emily Melinda
When Emily Melinda Young was born on 28 February 1854, in Marion, Illinois, United States, her father, William Jasper Young, was 27 and her mother, Sara Jane Songer, was 25. She married William Robinson on 2 January 1881, in Marion, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Iuka, Marion, Illinois, United States for about 40 years. She died on 6 April 1929, in Centralia, Marion, Illinois, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Iuka Cemetery, Iuka, Marion, Illinois, United States.
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- Emily Young in household of William Young, "United States Census, 1870"
- Emily Robinson, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Emily M Young, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867
Historical Boundaries: 1867: Marion, Illinois, United States
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong), used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an English equivalent of the Gaelic nickname Og ‘young’; see Ogg . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘young’ or similar, notably German Jung , Dutch Jong and De Jong , and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse .
Americanized form of Swedish Ljung: topographic or an ornamental name from ljung ‘(field of) heather’, or a habitational name from a placename containing this word, e.g. Ljungby.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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