Mary Ann Harrington

Brief Life History of Mary Ann

When Mary Ann Harrington was born on 17 September 1846, in Abington Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Lloyd Harrington, was 26 and her mother, Mercy Wescott, was 24. She married Sylvanus King Squier on 26 January 1864, in Nicholson, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Lathrop Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 7 November 1883, in Lathrop, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Deckertown Cemetery, Lathrop Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Sylvanus King Squier
1842–1909
Mary Ann Harrington
1846–1883
Marriage: 26 January 1864
Lloyd Edward Squier
1862–
Henrietta F Squier
1865–1885
Anginette A Squier
1867–1936
Arthur B Squier
1870–1889
Bertha Lillie Squier
1876–1944
Dyer L Squier
1881–1923
Ralph I. Squier
1882–1971

Sources (9)

  • Mary Harrington in household of Lloyd Harrington, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Mary Ann Harrington Squier, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Mary Harrington in entry for Angie A Hunt, "Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987"

World Events (7)

1851

Oldest grave seen in the memorials list

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1863 · Battle of Gettysburg

The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of the three places called Harrington (Cumberland, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire). The Cumberland placename derives from the Old English personal name Hæfer + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The Lincolnshire placename derives from the Old English personal name Hearra + Old English connective -ing- + tūn. The Northamptonshire derives from an Old English personal name Hǣthhere + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Compare Herendeen .

Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArrachtáin ‘descendant of Arrachtán’, a personal name from a diminutive of arrachtach ‘mighty, powerful’.

Irish: in Kerry, this name was adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIongardail, later Ó hUrdáil, ‘descendant of Iongardal’, a personal name of uncertain origin.

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

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