When Mary Ann Olive Garner was born on 11 April 1852, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, her father, John Ellis Garner, was 31 and her mother, Mary Ann Olive Rawson, was 25. She married George Washington Barr on 31 January 1875, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States in 1910 and Judicial Township 3, Fresno, California, United States in 1920. She died on 14 May 1934, in Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 82.
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Historical Boundaries: 1853: San Bernardino, California, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English (of Norman origin): perhaps occasionally from the Old French personal name Garnier (see Garnier ), but it is exeptionally rare as a personal name in medieval England and no certain evidence has been found for its use as a surname. Compare Warner .
English: from Middle English gern(i)er, garner, gurner, Anglo-Norman French gerner ‘granary’ (Old French grenier, from Late Latin granarium, a derivative of granum ‘grain’). It was probably a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of the stores kept in a granary.
English and Scottish: commonly shortened form of Gardner .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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