Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Whitmire was born on 12 December 1873, in Rabun, Georgia, United States, her father, Reverend Reuben Lafayette Whitmire, was 18 and her mother, Harriet Louise Davenport, was 24. She married Rufus Wiley Allen about 1890, in Madison, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Homestead, Blaine, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Liberty Township, Blaine, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years. She died on 5 December 1949, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Park Lawn Memorial Park, Commerce, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Mary I Allen in household of Rufus Allen, "United States Census, 1930"
- Mary Jane Allen, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Whitmire Mary, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1953"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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.
1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
1893 · The Last Public Hanging in Georgia
The last public hanging in Georgia was on September 28, 1893. The General Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law, Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Wittmeyer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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