Brief Life History of Mary Etta
When Mary Etta Dana was born on 12 March 1870, in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia, Vermont, United States, her father, Edward Jacob Dana, was 30 and her mother, Mary E Williams, was 22. She married James B Ball on 4 February 1889, in Wheelock, Caledonia, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Sheffield, Caledonia, Vermont, United States in 1880. She died on 13 May 1909, in Wheelock, Caledonia, Vermont, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Wheelock, Caledonia, Vermont, United States.
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- Marietta Dana in household of Edwd Dana, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mary E. Ball, "Find A Grave Index"
- Etta, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-2008"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1872 · The Amnesty Act
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
Probably an altered form of English Dawney or Dawnay (see Dawn ), cognates of French Daunay (see Donais ).
Czech and Slovak (Daňa); Polish and Hungarian: from a short form of the personal name Daniel (Hungarian Dániel), or perhaps from a short form of any of various Slavic compound personal names formed with the element dan ‘given’, for example Czech Danomír and Bohdan, Polish Bogdan .
Albanian: nickname or metonymic occupational name from danë (definite form dana) ‘pincers’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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