Brief Life History of Mary Polly
When Mary Polly Jones was born in 1820, in Lower Hominy Township, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, her father, Thomas Medley Jones, was 39 and her mother, Anna Graves Powers, was 39. She married Larkin L. Reeves in 1837, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Hominy Creek, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States in 1860 and Sulphur Springs, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States in 1870. She died on 9 January 1917, at the age of 97.
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- Polly Reaves in household of Larkin Reaves, "United States Census, 1870"
- Jones in entry for Myley Parker, "North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930"
- Mary Reeves in household of L Reeves, "United States Census, 1850"
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World Events (8)
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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