Brief Life History of Maria Thompson
When Maria Thompson Bacon was born in December 1868, in Adams, Illinois, United States, her father, David Greenleaf Bacon, was 28 and her mother, Mary Jane Cate, was 22. She married Jefferson Davis Foote on 6 August 1889, in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Lincoln, Kansas, United States in 1875 and Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States in 1900. She died on 26 November 1919, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 50.
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- M P Bacon in household of D G Bacon, "Kansas State Census, 1875"
- Maria Bacon, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Marie T, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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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.
1870
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Lincoln, Kansas, United States
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and French: from the Norman French personal name Bacun, derived from the ancient Germanic name Bac(c)o, Bahho, based on the element bag ‘(to) fight, (to) dispute’. The name was relatively common among the Normans in the form Bacus, of which the oblique case was Bacon.
English and French: from Middle English, Old French bacun, bacon ‘bacon’ (a word of ancient Germanic origin, akin to Back 3), probably a metonymic occupational name for a preparer and seller of cured pork.
History: Gilles Bacon from Normandy, France, is documented in Quebec City, QC, in 1647. — Michael Bacon from England arrived in Dedham, MA, in 1640. Nathanial Bacon, from Stratton, Cornwall, arrived in Barnstaple, MA, in 1639. Another Nathaniel Bacon (1647–76), from Friston Hall, Suffolk, emigrated to VA and settled at Curl's Neck on the James river.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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