When Ann Holton Matthews was born on 15 December 1838, in Neshoba, Mississippi, United States, her father, Joseph Lazarus Matthews, was 29 and her mother, Rhoda Carroll, was 20. She married Francis Marion Perkins on 26 November 1852, in San Bernardino, California, United States. She lived in Mississippi, United States in 1870 and Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States in 1900. She died on 10 January 1923, in Pima, Graham, Arizona, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Pima Cemetery, Pima, Graham, Arizona, United States.
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After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English and Irish (Ulster and County Louth): patronymic from the personal name Matthew . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, such as German Matthäus (from the personal name Matthäus, from Latin Matthaeus) and Slovenian Matavž (from an obsolete vernacular form of the personal name Matevž, from Latin Matthaeus). Compare Mathews .
Irish: Anglicized form of Mac Mathghamhna (see McMahon ).
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