When Mary Alice Barker was born on 4 October 1859, in Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Josiah Barker, was 27 and her mother, Alice Woodhead, was 28. She married Don Carlos Shurtz ll on 15 October 1878, in Escalante, Garfield, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Boulder Election Precinct, Garfield, Utah, United States in 1900 and Provo, Utah, Utah, United States in 1930. She died on 30 July 1952, in Escalante, Garfield, Utah, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Escalante, Garfield, Utah, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1875: Iron, Utah Territory, United States 1882: Garfield, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Garfield, Utah, United States
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: occupational name for a tanner of leather, from Middle English barkere ‘tanner’, tree bark having been used as the tanning agent.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English berker, bercher (Old French berchier, bercher, berkier, berker, Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’, genitive berbicis). With the change of -ar- to -er- in Middle English, this became indistinguishable from the preceding name (see 1 above).
Americanized form of German Berger or Barger .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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