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Martha is a feminine given name (Latin from Ancient Greek Μάρθα (Mártha), from Aramaic מרתא (Mārtā) "the mistress" or "the lady", from מרה "mistress", feminine of מרי "master"). Patti , Patsy , and Patty were in use in Colonial America as English rhyming diminutives of the diminutive Mattie . [ 1 ]
Mattie Silks was born Martha A. Nimon in Fayette County, Pennsylvania in 1845. Silks was one of five children born to farmers Henry and Sarah Nimon. Little is known about Silks' childhood other than her family moved to Erie, Indiana in 1850.
Martha's mother, Martha Eppes Wayles, had previously given birth to twins in 1746, but neither survived; the girl was stillborn and the boy died hours after his birth. [7] Martha was nicknamed "Patsy". [8] Martha's father John was a Lancaster-born emigrant to the Thirteen Colonies who worked as an attorney and prosperous planter and slave trader.
The Latin Church celebrates the feast day of Martha, Mary of Bethany and their brother Lazarus on 29 July. [19] The feast of Martha, classified as a "semi-double" in the Tridentine calendar , became a "simple" one in the General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII , a "third class feast" in the General Roman Calendar of 1960 , and a memorial in the ...
Congress passed a joint resolution to construct a marble monument in the United States Capitol for his body, an initiative supported by Martha. In December 1800, the United States House passed an appropriations bill for $200,000 (~$4.55 million in 2023) to build the mausoleum, which was to be a pyramid with a base 100 feet (30 m) square.
Baby Reindeer’s ‘true’ story is getting more complicated by the day – and ‘Martha’ is now having her say Friday 10 May 2024 00:01 , Alexander Butler
Martha Moore Ballard (February 20, 1735 – May 7, 1812) was an American midwife, healer, and diarist. Unusual for the time, Ballard kept a diary with thousands of entries over nearly three decades, which has provided historians with invaluable insight into colonial frontier-women's lives.
By 1804, she was the lone surviving child of Martha and Thomas Jefferson, the only one of the couple's children to survive past the age of 25. Martha Jefferson married Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., who was a politician at the federal and state levels and was elected as governor of Virginia (1819–1822), which made her the first lady of Virginia ...