Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Benner was born on 13 February 1812, in Maine, United States, her father, Jacob Benner Jr, was 30 and her mother, Nancy Hoffses Bowley, was 35. She married Isaiah Crooker on 11 May 1835, in Waldoboro, Lincoln, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Bath, Lincoln, Maine, United States in 1850. She died on 28 January 1892, in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States.
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- Mary D Crooker in household of Isiah Crooker, "United States Census, 1880"
- Mary Benner Crooker, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mary B Crooker, "Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820
Maine is the 23rd state.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
German: occupational name for a basket and bassinet maker, from an agent derivative of Middle High German benne ‘work basket, bassinet, cradle’.
In some cases probably an altered form of German Bender .
English (East Midlands): possibly a variant of Bender .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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