When Mary Sarah Joy was born on 26 January 1836, in Woolwich, Kent, England, United Kingdom, her father, Walter Robert Joy, was 30 and her mother, Sarah Masterson, was 37. She married Benjamin Frederick Cooke on 1 April 1861, in Chichester, Sussex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Park Valley, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1900 and Twin Groves, Fremont, Idaho, United States in 1910. She died on 12 June 1921, in St. Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in St. Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, United States.
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Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Historical Boundaries: 1846: Unorganized Federal Territory, United States 1854: Nebraska Territory, United States 1854: Washington, Nebraska Territory, United States 1856: Douglas, Nebraska Territory, United States 1867: Douglas, Nebraska, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: from Joie, a French female personal name or occasionally from its male equivalent, given especially since the Reformation as an omen or well-wishing name. In some cases the name may also be a nickname for a person of a cheerful disposition, from Middle English joie ‘joy’.
History: Thomas Joy (c. 1610–78), an architect and builder born probably in Hingham, Norfolk, England, appears in land records in Boston, MA, in 1636. He had a considerable influence on Boston architecture.
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