Brief Life History of Abigail Ward
When Abigail Ward Jackson was born on 22 October 1842, in Solon, Somerset, Maine, United States, her father, Alfred Jackson, was 29 and her mother, Sarah Ann Heald, was 25. She married Joseph Wiley Cummings on 11 March 1865, in Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Albany Township, Oxford, Maine, United States for about 40 years. She died on 11 February 1921, in Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Albany Township, Oxford, Maine, United States.
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- Abbie W Cummings in household of Joseph W Cummings, "United States Census, 1870"
- Abby N. Jackson, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907"
- Abigail Ward Jackson Cummings, "Find A Grave Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1854
Historical Boundaries: 1854: Androscoggin, Maine, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from Jack . In North America, this surname has absorbed other patronymics beginning with J- in various European languages, in particular those derived from equivalents or short forms and other derivatives of the personal name Jacob , e.g. Norwegian Jacobsen or Jakobsen and, in some cases, Slovenian Jakše (from a derivative of the personal name Jakob ). This surname is also very common among African Americans (see also 2 below).
African American: from the personal name Jackson (or Andrew Jackson), adopted in honor of Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the US; or adoption of the surname in 1 above, in many cases probably for the same reason.
History: This extremely common British name was brought over by numerous different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One forebear was the father and namesake of the seventh US president, Andrew Jackson, who migrated to SC from Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland in 1765. The Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson came from VA, where his great-grandfather John, likewise of Scotch–Irish stock, had settled after emigrating to America in 1748.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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