Brief Life History of Mary Johannah
When Mary Johannah Lewis was born on 15 October 1851, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, her father, John Moss Lewis, was 22 and her mother, Martha Jane Crismon, was 20. She married Jesse Daugherty Hobson on 27 September 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 16 February 1920, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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- Joanna Lewis, "United States Census, 1860"
- Mary J. Hobsen, "Arizona Deaths, 1870-1951"
- Johanna Lewis in entry for Lydia Dye, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1853
Historical Boundaries: 1853: San Bernardino, California, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Lewis, Leweis, Lowis, from ancient Germanic (originally West Frankish) Hludwig (itself from hlōd- ‘fame, famous’ + wīg- ‘battle’). This was Latinized as Ludovicus and Chlodovisus, which were gallicized as Clovis or Clouis, French Louis. The name may also appear as Lawis, Laweys, Lawes, by unrounding of the vowel of Lowis on the analogy of the variation between Low and Law as pet forms of Middle English Lourence alias Laurence. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Laws 2 and compare Lawrence .
Welsh: adopted for the Welsh personal name Llywelyn (see Llewellyn ).
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lughaidh ‘son of Lughaidh’. This is one of the most common Old Irish personal names. It is derived from Lugh ‘brightness’, which was the name of a Celtic god.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Mary Johanna Lewis Hobson/Life summary and News article of death
MARY JOHANNA LEWIS HOBSON Mary Johanna Lewis was born October 15, 1851, in San Bernardino, California. Her father and mother John Moss and Martha Jane Crismon Lewis had gone with grandfather Cha …
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