When Lucia Fairline Owen was born on 27 January 1846, in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Mather Owen, was 41 and her mother, Phila Martha Merritt, was 39. She married Robert Amos Smith on 15 May 1873, in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Otis, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States in 1850. She died in 1925, in Dalton, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 79.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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Welsh: from the personal name Owain, from Latin Eugenius (see Eugene ). This Welsh personal name is cognate with Old Irish Eogán, see 2 and 3.
Scottish and Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eoghain ‘son of Eoghan’. See McEwen .
Irish: from Ó hEoghain, ‘descendant of Eoghan’. See Ewen .
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