Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Beus was born on 17 February 1851, in Pramollo, Turin, Piedmont, Italy, her father, Michel Beus, was 39 and her mother, Marianne Combe, was 36. She married Edward Priest on 12 March 1876, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Thornton, Madison, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Taylor, Bonneville, Idaho, United States in 1930. She died on 6 February 1936, in Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Bonneville, Idaho, United States.
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- Mary Buse in household of Michael Buse, "United States Census, 1860"
- Piedmont Project Family Group Sheet for the family of Michel Beux and Marie Anne (her birth name - Marianne) Combe
- Mary Beus, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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World Events (8)
1860
Northern Italy was joined to the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1861
The Kingdom of Italy was formed under the leadership of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
German and Dutch (mainly De Beus): variant of Beuse, a cognate of German Böse (see Boese ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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