Brief Life History of Mary H
When Mary H Wagner was born on 15 November 1858, in Clinton, Illinois, United States, her father, Jacob Wagner, was 33 and her mother, Barbara Seitz, was 21. She married Jacob Phillip Kobler on 7 March 1880, in Clinton, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Sugar Creek Township, Clinton, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Crab Orchard, Williamson, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 14 October 1904, in Williamson, Illinois, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Marion, Williamson, Illinois, United States.
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- Mary Wagner in household of Jacob Wagner, "United States Census, 1870"
- Maria Wagner, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- MARIA KOBLER, "BillionGraves Index"
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1861 · Simple life to Soldiers
Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (also Wägner): occupational name for a carter and (in some dialects) a cartwright, from an agent derivative of Middle High German wagen ‘cart, wagon’, German Wagen. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Britain, Poland, and Denmark. In Hungary it is mostly spelled Wágner and Vágner. In Russia, Czechia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Slovakia it is also found in the Slavicized form Vagner . Compare Wagener , Waggener , and Wagoner .
Dutch and perhaps also English: occupational name from Middle Dutch waghenaer ‘carter’ (compare 1 above). The Dutch word is not known to have been borrowed into English before 1600 but the surname Wagner is recorded in Norfolk (England) from 1379, perhaps a substitution of the Dutch word for Middle English wainer. Compare Waggoner .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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