When Mary Winn Abernathy was born on 28 February 1818, in Howard, Missouri, United States, her father, James R Abernathy, was 23 and her mother, Jemima Winn, was 16. She married Jacob Harrison Ford on 17 January 1844, in Monroe, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Clay, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Monroe Township, Colusa, California, United States in 1880. She died on 13 January 1891, in Paris, Monroe, Missouri, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Ford Cemetery, Paris, Monroe, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1822: Clay created from Ray and Non-County Area 7
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Scottish: habitational name from Abernethy in southeastern Perthshire. The placename is of Pictish origin, meaning ‘mouth of the river Nethy’.
History: This was the name of a cadet branch of MacDuff earls of Fife and one of the surnames of the Scots who settled in northern Ireland during the ‘plantation’ in the 17th century, and it was brought to the US as the name of a Southern plantation owner (in a different sense of the word ‘plantation’).
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