Brief Life History of Mary Esther
When Mary Esther Benedict was born on 23 August 1846, in Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Joshua Northrop Benedict, was 40 and her mother, Fidelia Moses, was 33. She married Breneman Barr Bitner on 10 December 1864, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in North Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1860. She died on 20 September 1866, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 20, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Mary Benedict in household of Joshua N Benedict, "United States Census, 1860"
- Mary E Bitner, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
- Mary E Bitner, "Utah, Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, 1847-1976"
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1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1848 · Slavery is Abolished
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English, German, and Dutch: from the personal name Benedict, from Latin Benedictus ‘blessed’. This owed its popularity in the Middle Ages chiefly to Saint Benedict of Norcia (c. 480–550), who founded the Benedictine order of monks at Monte Cassino and wrote a monastic rule that formed a model for all subsequent rules. No doubt the meaning of the Latin word also contributed to its popularity as a personal name, especially in Romance countries. Occasionally the English surname may derive from Latin benedicite ‘bless (you)’, perhaps given as a nickname to an habitual user of the expression. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed the German variant Benedikt and many cognates from other languages, e.g. Hungarian Benedek , Slovenian Benedik (see Benedick ), and also their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Italian Benedetti .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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