Mary Amelia Leavitt

Brief Life History of Mary Amelia

When Mary Amelia Leavitt was born on 10 February 1832, in Compton, Sherbrooke, Lower Canada, British North America, her father, Jeremiah Leavitt II, was 34 and her mother, Sarah Sturtevant, was 33. She married William Haynes Hamblin on 10 February 1850. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 12 August 1893, in Pima, Graham, Arizona, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Pima Cemetery, Pima, Graham, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Haynes Hamblin
1830–1872
Mary Amelia Leavitt
1832–1893
Marriage: 10 February 1850
Sarah Daphne Hamblin
1853–1872
Mary Emily Hamblin
1854–1902
Mary Amelia Hamblin
1854–1933
Eliza Olive Hamblin
1857–1943
Jacob Hamblin
1860–1862
Thomas Rowell Hamblin
1862–1941
Rachel Hamblin
1863–1942
Henry Hamblin
1864–1866
Joseph E Hamblin
1868–1943

Sources (29)

  • Mary Leavitt in household of Sarah Leavitt, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Mary Amelia Leavitt Hamblin, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Mary Leavett in entry for Eliza Olive Mangum, "Arizona Deaths, 1870-1951"

World Events (8)

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English:

(of Norman origin): nickname from Anglo-Norman French leuet ‘wolf cub’ (see Low 3).

habitational name from any of various places in Normandy called Livet. All are of obscure, presumably Gaulish, etymology.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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