Brief Life History of Julia Cornelia
When Julia Cornelia Billings was born on 28 February 1845, in Somers, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, her father, Horace Emmons Billing, was 32 and her mother, Frances Cordelia Stebbins, was 25. She married Alfred Nye Mayo on 17 December 1870, in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Tolland, Connecticut, United States in 1860. She died on 3 June 1915, in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Julia C Billings in household of Horace E Billings, "United States Census, 1860"
- Julia C. Billings, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Julia Mayo, "Massachusetts, Deaths, 1841-1915"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · Slavery is Abolished
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English (Midlands): variant of Billing , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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