Brief Life History of Vera Captola
When Vera Captola Beer was born on 11 November 1894, in Antelope, Nebraska, United States, her father, Charles Bernard Beer, was 22 and her mother, Esther Rosamond Simmons, was 20. She married Merle Benjamin Evans on 25 February 1914, in Oakdale, Antelope, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Oakdale, Antelope, Nebraska, United States in 1940 and Oakdale Cemetery, Oakdale, Antelope, Nebraska, United States for about 1 years. She died in May 1986, in Tilden, Madison, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 91.
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- Vera C Evans, "United States 1950 Census"
- Vera C Beer, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
- Vera Evans, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Erhard, Hans, Heinz, Aloys, Bodo, Erna, Ernst, Frieda, Friedhelm, Hanni.
English (West Country): habitational name from any of the forty or so places in southwestern England called Beer(e) or Bear(e). Most of these derive their names from the West Saxon dative case, beara, of Old English bearu ‘grove, wood’ (the standard Old English dative bearwe being preserved in Barrow ). In some cases the surname may be topographic in origin, from atte beare ‘at the grove’. Some may be from Middle English bere ‘woodland swine-pasture’ (Old English bǣr). Compare Bear 1.
English: variant of Bear 2 ‘bear’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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