Brief Life History of Fannie W
When Fannie W Gates was born in 1838, in Rome, Oneida, New York, United States, her father, Henry Matteson Gates, was 28 and her mother, Jane Hawley, was 25. She married Erasmus Wright Seaman on 13 March 1862, in Hebron, McHenry, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in McHenry, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Hebron, McHenry, Illinois, United States in 1910. She was buried in Hebron, McHenry, Illinois, United States.
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- Fanny Gates in household of Henry Gates, "United States Census, 1850"
- Fanny Gates, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Fanny W Gates Seaman, "Find A Grave Index"
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1839
Historical Boundaries: 1839: McHenry, Illinois, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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: variant of Gate with plural or excrescent -s. The English surname Gate has three possible origins: (i) a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘gate’ (Old English geat, dative plural gatum), denoting someone who lived by a gate or set of gates (possibly sometimes an occupational name for a gate keeper; compre Yates); (ii) in northern England, the East Midlands, and East Anglia, a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘street, road, path’ (Old Norse gata) for someone who lived by a road (compare Street ); (iii) a nickname meaning ‘goat’, from northern Middle English gate, gait (Old English gāt, Old Norse geitr).
Americanized form of German Götz (see Goetz ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Barrière (see Barriere ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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