Brief Life History of Mary Margaret
When Mary Margaret Liston was born on 22 September 1889, in Honey Creek Township, Crawford, Illinois, United States, her father, James Finley Liston, was 31 and her mother, Amanda Ellen White, was 25. She had at least 1 son with Orrie Victor Dill. She died on 22 October 1962, at the age of 73, and was buried in Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (5)
- Maude Dill, "United States Census, 1930"
- Maude M. Liston, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
- Maude M. Dill, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Essex, so named from the Old English personal name Lissa (probably a pet form of Lēofsige, from lēof ‘dear, beloved’ + sige ‘victory’) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Scottish: habitational name from any of the places in West Lothian and Midlothian, which probably have the same origin as in 1 above. This surname is also found in Ireland.
Irish: Anglo-Norman name which has been in Limerick since the 13th century, originally de Lexinton, so presumably a habitational name from Lexington in Essex.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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