Brief Life History of Mary Ann
When Mary Ann Shipley was born on 28 May 1836, in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States, her father, Enoch Shipley, was 28 and her mother, Lucy Ann Roller, was 20. She married John Dickson in 1861. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 28 May 1863, in Bristol, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Kingsport, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States.
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- Mary Ann Shupley in household of Enoch Shupley, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Ann Shipley - Individual or family possessions: birth: 28 May 1836; Bristol, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States
- Mary Shipley Dickson, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (4)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
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.
Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire): habitational name from any of various places called Shipley, in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Shropshire, Durham, Northumberland, Sussex, and elsewhere, all named with Old English scēap ‘sheep’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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