When Sophie Mousseau was born in 1859, in Pine Ridge, Shannon, South Dakota, United States, her father, Alexis Magloire Mousseau Sr, was 29 and her mother, Ellen Yellow Woman, was 27. She married John Posey Ryan about 1875. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Pine Ridge Reservation, Shannon, Dakota Territory, United States in 1910 and Bennett, South Dakota, United States in 1920. She died on 15 October 1936, in Martin, Bennett, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Patricia, Bennett, South Dakota, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries - 1867: Laramie, Dakota Territory, United States; 1868: Laramie, Wyoming Territory, United States; 1890: Laramie, Wyoming, United States
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Some characteristic forenames: French Adelard, Aime, Gaetan, Jacques, Marcel, Michel, Ovila.
French: topographic name from a diminutive of mousse ‘moss’, for someone living by a mossy or marshy place; or a habitational name from (Le) Mousseau, the name of several places mainly in the northern part of France. Compare Mossow , Mousaw , and Mussaw .
History: Jacques Mousseau dit Laviolette from Azay-le-Rideau in Indre-et-Loire, France, married Marguerite Sauviot in QC in 1658. His descendants also bear altered forms of the surname, such as Mossow, Mousaw, and Mussaw, and also the surname Desilets .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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