Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Leffingwell was born on 5 March 1841, in Montrose, Lee, Iowa, United States, her father, William Leffingwell, was 35 and her mother, Eunice Bigelow, was 36. She married Robert B. Miller on 21 October 1858, in Sonoma, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Analy Judicial Township, Sonoma, California, United States for about 20 years. She died on 19 April 1936, in Sonoma, California, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Green Valley Cemetery, Sebastopol, Sonoma, California, United States.
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- Mary Thomas in household of Alvah O Miller, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mary Jane Miller, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1953"
- Mary Jane Leffingwell Thomas, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1862
EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER: Leah Miller BIRTH 1862 Sonoma County, California, USA DEATH 6 Feb 1862 (aged less–than 1 year) Sonoma County, California, USA BURIAL Green Valley Cemetery Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California, USA MEMORIAL ID 5192924 · View Source
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Leppingwells in Essex, which is recorded as Leffingwelles in 1561 and owed its name to the possessions there of the family of Robert de Leffeldewelle (1302), who is called Leffingwell in an Elizabethan transcript of the Court Rolls.
History: The family, called Leffingwell in the 15th century and Leppingwell in the 16th, took its name from a lost place recorded as Liffildeuuella in 1086 (from the Old English personal name Lēofhild + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’), which may survive in a corrupt form in Levit's Corner in Pebmarsh (Essex), into which their possessions extended.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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