When Cyrus Matheny was born in 1842, in Union Township, Monroe, Ohio, United States, his father, Cyrus Matheny Sr., was 36 and his mother, Lucinda Balis, was 36. He married Elizabeth Archer on 16 February 1860, in Noble, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Center Township, Noble, Ohio, United States in 1860. He died on 6 October 1864, in Noble, Ohio, United States, at the age of 22, and was buried in East Union Cemetery, East Union, Noble, Ohio, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (of French Huguenot origin): altered form of French Mathenay, a habitational name from a place called Mathenay in Jura (Franche-Comté). This surname is very rare in Britain, while the surname Mathenay has already died out in France.
History: Daniel Matheny came to MD from London in the latter half of the 17th century. — This surname is listed along with its original form Mathenay in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
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