When Luvena Elizabeth Barr was born on 10 June 1882, in Eustis, Frontier, Nebraska, United States, her father, Gilbert Lowel Barr, was 39 and her mother, Ziporah Elizabeth Runyon, was 33. She married Lewis Clyde Burkholder on 3 December 1902, in Birkville, Norton, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Lusk, Niobrara, Wyoming, United States in 1930 and Fresno, California, United States in 1935. She died on 28 January 1972, in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Belmont Memorial Park, Fresno, Fresno, California, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1884: Frontier, Nebraska, United States
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Scottish (Glasgow) and northern Irish (Ulster): habitational name from any of various places in southwestern Scotland, in particular Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, named with Gaelic barr ‘height, hill’ or a Brittonic cognate of this.
English and Welsh: habitational name from Great Barr in Staffordshire. This is from Brittonic barro- ‘top, summit’, referring to Barr Beacon; there is evidence that this was known as la Bare in the 13th century.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Barre-en-Ouche in Eure, France, or perhaps from Barre-de-Semilly in Manche, France.
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