Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Moyer was born on 28 April 1817, in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Charles Moyer, was 26 and her mother, Elizabeth Bird or Vogel, was 19. She married Henry Grow Jr on 1 August 1837, in Bryn Mawr, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Preston Township, Platte, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 1 October 1882, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Mary Grow in household of Henry Grow, "United States Census, 1880"
- Mary Moyer, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989"
- Mary M Grow, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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.
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.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Meyer or Mayer .
French: status name for a sharecropper, from an angent derivative of Old French moie ‘half’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of Dutch Mooijer: surname associated with Maaijer, an occupational name for a mower or reaper (see Maier ). However, almost all bearers come from Volendam (North Holland), where the surname originated as Pooijer, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman (peurder) or a nickname for someone carrying a ponjaard ‘dagger’. The surname was changed to Mooijer due to the connotation with Dutch pooier ‘bully, fancy-man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Life Summary of Henry GROW Jr. and Mary MOYER
Henry GROW, Jr. was born 1 October 1817, in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, seventh child to Henry GROW and Mary RIGHTER. Frederick GROW, Henry Grow Jr.’s German grandfather, bequeathed a farm to …
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