Brief Life History of Helen Gertrude
When Helen Gertrude York was born on 2 March 1860, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Joseph York, was 36 and her mother, Eliza Maria Williams, was 38. She married George Edwin Bennett on 12 October 1884, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 22 April 1889, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Hellen G York in household of Joseph York, "Massachusetts State Census, 1865"
- Ellen Gertrude York, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
- Helen G. York, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of York in northern England. The surname is now widespread throughout England. Originally, the city bore the Latin name Eburacum, which is probably from a Brittonic name meaning ‘yew-tree place’. This was altered by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc (from the elements eofor ‘wild boar’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’). This name was taken over by Scandinavian settlers, who altered it back to opacity in the form Jórvík or Jórk (English York, which became finally settled as the placename in the 13th century). The surname has also been adopted by Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
In some cases also an American shortened and altered form of the East Slavic patronymic Yurkovich or its Croatian, Slovak, or Slovenian variants. Compare Yurk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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