Mollie Tracy Weston

Brief Life History of Mollie Tracy

When Mollie Tracy Weston was born on 27 October 1868, in Brooklyn Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Edwin A. Weston, was 42 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Jackson, was 36. She married Joseph Leander Kent on 12 June 1901, in Brooklyn Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Brooklyn, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Mansfield, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. She died on 12 August 1966, in Woodsville, Haverhill, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 97.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Leander Kent
1851–1916
Mollie Tracy Weston
1868–1966
Marriage: 12 June 1901
Ruth Weston Kent
1902–1988

Sources (9)

  • Mollie T Weston, "United States, Census, 1900"
  • Mollie T Weston, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
  • Mollie Weston in entry for John H Merrill and Ruth W Kent, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"

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World Events (8)

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.

1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad

Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English:

habitational name from any of numerous places called Weston, from Old English west ‘west’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’.

topographic name from Middle English atte west tun(e) ‘at the west farmstead, settlement’ (Old English west + tūn), or from Middle English (bi) weste(n)tune (Old English be westan tūne or be west in tūne), denoting someone who lived either to the west of a settlement or in the western part of a settlement. The latter was a common surname in Sussex.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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