Brief Life History of Mary A
When Mary A Rowe was born on 29 September 1859, in Hart, Kentucky, United States, her father, John Rowe, was 28 and her mother, Nancy Hodges, was 18. She had at least 4 sons with Frank Lee Cessna. She lived in Munfordville, Hart, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States in 1930. She died on 27 April 1936, in Kentucky, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Red Hill Cemetery, Hodgenville, LaRue, Kentucky, United States.
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- Mary A Howe in household of John Howe, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mrs Mary A. Cessna, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
- M A Rowe in entry for J Rowe Cessna and Nellie Hardcastle, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English rowe (Old English rāw) ‘row’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived by a hedgerow or in a row of houses in a street, or habitational, for someone who lived in a place so named. Compare Rawe and Rew .
English (of Norman origin): variant of Rolfe , Ralph , or Rough . Compare Rowson .
East German: habitational name from any of the places called Rowe, Rowa, Rowe(n). Compare Rowen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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