Brief Life History of Margaret Matilda
When Margaret Matilda Barney was born on 8 November 1834, in Lake Fork, Logan, Illinois, United States, her father, Charles Barney, was 51 and her mother, Deborah Riffle, was 26. She married Joseph David Gilbert on 1 January 1854, in Provo Utah Temple, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States for about 20 years and San Bernardino Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1900. She died on 27 December 1915, in Chino, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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- Margaret Gilbert in household of Jos. F. Gilbert, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Matilda Barney - Individual or family possessions: birth: 8 November 1834; Lake Fork, Logan, Illinois, United States
- Margaret Mary Barney Gilbert, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Barney in Norfolk, which is probably named with an Old English personal name Bera (with genitive -n) + Old English ēg ‘island, dry ground in a marsh’.
English: from the personal name Barney, a pet form of Bernard .
Scottish: possibly from the Old Norse personal name Bjarni (from bjǫrn ‘bear’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Life Scetch of Charles Barney
Charles Barney was born 23 March 18783 at Sandgate, Bennington, Vermont, the birthplace calculated from records of the Sandgate Congregational Church, and from the testimony of his father, Luther Ba …
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