Brief Life History of Mary Jane “Jennie”
When Mary Jane “Jennie” Harris was born on 31 December 1860, in Brighton Township, Washington, Iowa, United States, her father, Manoah Pence Harris, was 24 and her mother, Emily B. Carmichael, was 21. She married Charles Phillip Le Roy Councilman on 5 December 1876, in Cass, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Cass Township, Cass, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Franklin Township, Cass, Iowa, United States in 1930. She died on 21 June 1941, in Vista, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Oak Hill Memorial Park, Escondido, San Diego, California, United States.
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- Jenny Spry, "Iowa State Census, 1925"
- Mary J. Harris, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
- Jennie Counselman Harris Spry, "Find A Grave Index"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1864
Historical Boundaries: 1864: Larimer, Colorado Territory, United States 1876: Larimer, Colorado, United States
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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