Brief Life History of Mary Cashman
When Mary Cashman Wakefield was born on 20 April 1850, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, John Fleming Wakefield, was 37 and her mother, Susannah Garlick, was 29. She married George Hardin Vance on 20 December 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850. She died on 17 April 1920, in Fairview, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Fairview, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- Mary Vance in household of George H Vance, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Cashman Wakefield - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Mary Cashman Wakefield
- Mary W. Vance, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1859
Historical Boundaries: 1859: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of Wakefield in Yorkshire and from Wakefield Lawn in Potterspury (Northamptonshire). Both are named from the Old English personal name Waca or Old English wacu ‘wake, festival’ + feld ‘open country’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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