Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Butler was born on 6 May 1785, in Connecticut, United States, her father, Solomon Butler, was 27 and her mother, Rebecca Gibson, was 26. She married Daniel Cooley on 5 March 1806, in Paris, Oneida, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850. She died on 1 August 1856, in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Grantsville City Cemetery, Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States.
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- Mary Cooley in household of John M Cooley, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Butler - birth-name: Mary Butler
- Mary Butler Cooley, "Find A Grave Index"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1788 · Connecticut Becomes the 5th State
Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.
1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
Name Meaning
English: from a word that originally denoted a wine steward, usually the chief servant of a medieval household, from Norman French butuiller (Old French bouteillier, Latin buticularius, from buticula ‘bottle’). In the large households of royalty and the most powerful nobility, the title came to denote an officer of high rank and responsibility, only nominally concerned with the supply of wine, if at all. As well as being widespread in England, this is also the surname of an important Irish family, descended from Theobald FitzWalter, who was appointed Chief Butler of Ireland by King Henry II in 1177. It is Gaelicized as de Buitléir.
English: occasionally perhaps an occupational name from Middle English boteler ‘maker of bottles (usually of leather)’, a derivative of Middle English botel, Old French bo(u)teille ‘bottle’ and synonymous with Botelmaker.
Americanized form of French Bouthillier (see Bouteiller ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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