Lydia Alice Rider

Brief Life History of Lydia Alice

When Lydia Alice Rider was born in 1884, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Daniel R Rider, was 35 and her mother, Julia Ann Temple, was 30. She married Robert Edward Earnest on 27 October 1900, in Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1935 and Pine Township, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died on 13 January 1960, at the age of 76, and was buried in Waller Cemetery, Waller, Jackson Township, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Edward Earnest
1877–1968
Lydia Alice Rider
1884–1960
Marriage: 27 October 1900
Charles Earnest
1900–1979
William M Earnest
1903–1996
Clarence Andrew Earnest
1904–1977
George H Earnest
1909–
Hilbert Cleatus Earnest
1910–1940
Clara Elizabeth Earnest
1912–2006
Willis McClellan Earnest
1915–1976
Robert Henry Earnest Jr
1918–1974
Edith Mae Ernest
1925–2007

Sources (9)

  • Lydia A Earnest, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Lydia Alice Rider - Published information: birth-name: Lydia Alice Rider
  • Alice Rider, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"

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1886

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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union

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1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name from Middle English ridere ‘horseman’, perhaps with a specific application such as ‘forest ranger’, ‘horseman who guards crops’, or ‘mounted warrior, knight’. Compare Knight .

English: habitational name from Ryther, near Selby (Yorkshire), probably from Old English ryther ‘clearing’.

English: topographic name from Middle English ridere ‘dweller at a clearing’ (see Reeder ) or ‘dweller by a small stream’, depending on which sense of Middle English ride the surname is derived from. These topographic senses of Rider are limited to the southern counties of England (especially Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire), where topographic names in -er and the Middle English words ride ‘clearing’ and rithe ‘small stream’ are mainly found. See also Reed .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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