Brief Life History of Mary Adrian
When Mary Adrian Elder was born on 12 October 1852, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Robert W Elder, was 27 and her mother, Mary Ann Davis, was 30. She married George Henry Harkless in 1869. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Franklin, Venango, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Venango, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. She died on 25 March 1928, in Bully Hill, Sandycreek Township, Venango, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Franklin, Venango, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Mary Harkless in household of Wm Johnson, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Adrian Mary ELDER - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Adrian Mary Elder
- Mary Ann Elder Harkless, "Find A Grave Index"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
Scottish: distinguishing nickname from Middle English and Older Scots elder ‘parent; older, senior person’, perhaps in some cases denoting the older of two bearers of the same personal name. It may have been used also to denote an elder of a church, a senior and respected member of the congregation. Compare Senior .
English: in southeastern England, this may be a variant of Helder .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Elter , which has the same meaning as 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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