Brief Life History of Maria Sophia
When Maria Sophia Mumper was born on 12 November 1868, in Montrose, Effingham, Illinois, United States, her father, Jacob Himes Mumper, was 34 and her mother, Hester Anna Bennett, was 21. She married Henry H Sanford on 23 October 1885. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Saint Francis Township, Effingham, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 10 January 1898, in Montrose, Effingham, Illinois, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Cumberland, Illinois, United States.
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- Mary S Mumper in household of Jacob H Mumper, "United States Census, 1880"
- Early Birth Records of Cumberland County, Illinois
- Mary Munsfer, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1870
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Effingham, Illinois, United States
1877 · The First Workers Strike
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
Name Meaning
German: nickname from Middle High German muntbor ‘protector, guardian’.
Possibly also an altered form of German Mümpfer, a habitational name for someone from Mumpf, near Säckingen, Switzerland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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