Brief Life History of Carrie Edith
When Carrie Edith Lane Stites was born on 23 July 1900, in Weiser, Washington, Idaho, United States, her father, John Wesley Lane, was 43 and her mother, Victoria Alice Kelly, was 29. She married Lawrence Jasper Stites on 2 April 1918, in Weiser, Washington, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Huntington Election Precinct, Baker, Oregon, United States in 1940 and Pendleton, Umatilla, Oregon, United States in 1949. She died on 24 November 1955, in Weiser, Washington, Idaho, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Weiser, Washington, Idaho, United States.
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- Carrie E Stites in household of La?Rance Stites, "United States Census, 1930"
- Carrie Edith Lane, "Idaho, Birth Index, 1861-1911"
- Carrie Edith Stites, "Idaho Death Certificates, 1938-1961"
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World Events (8)
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
1911 · First U.S. Primary Elections Held
The first U.S. primary elections were held in Oregon in 1911.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, from Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear or javelin’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan. See also Lamb .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Daughter of John Wesley Lane and Victoria Alice (Kelley) Lane. Sister of John Edward Lane. In 1910 she lived in Weiser, ID with her mother and father, along with her sisters and brothers, Louis, Haze …
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