Brief Life History of Adelaide Martha
When Adelaide Martha Woods was born on 20 January 1861, in Swan, Marion, Iowa, United States, her father, William Henderson Woods, was 34 and her mother, Nancy Parker, was 36. She married George Washington Voris on 28 June 1877, in Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in La Veta, Huerfano, Colorado, United States in 1900 and Meeker, Whitman, Washington, United States in 1910. She died on 10 May 1911, in Kent, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Kent, King, Washington, United States.
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- Martha Voris in household of George Voris, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Adalaide M Kester - birth-name: Adalaide M Kester
- Mrs Adelade or Adelaide Voris, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Colorado War
The Colorado War was a conflict between the United States and an alliance among the Kiowa, Araphaho, Cheyenne, and Comache nations of the Native American. The war was over the Eastern Plains of the Colorado Territory and resulted in the removal of the tribes.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Wood with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: adopted as a translation of Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’ (see Quill ), or in Ulster of Mac Con Coille ‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’, which has also been mistranslated Cox , as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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