Sanna Valpuri Aho

Brief Life History of Sanna Valpuri

When Sanna Valpuri Aho was born on 27 February 1863, in Lapua, Vaasa, Finland, her father, Gustaa Ahola, was 24 and her mother, Maria Israelsdotter, was 22. She married Matti Jarvenpaa on 4 November 1883, in Virginia, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 3 April 1947, in Virginia, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenwood Township, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States.

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Family Time Line

Matti Jarvenpaa
1861–1927
Sanna Valpuri Aho
1863–1947
Marriage: 4 November 1883
Santa
1887–
Elizabeth Wilkins
Stillborn Santa
1888–1888
Aandes Kustaa Santa
1889–1954
Aline Marie Santa
1891–1971
Matt Santa
1893–1895
Hjalmar Holmes Santa
1895–1969
Ida Katerina Santa
1898–1968
Oscar Modeus Santa
1901–1907
Liisa Johanna Santa
1903–1999
Anna Sophia Santa
1906–1979
Oscar Mathew Santa
1909–1972

Sources (27)

  • Susanna Santa, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Susanna Santa, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"
  • Susanna Santa in entry for Matt Santa, "Minnesota Deaths and Burials, 1835-1990"

World Events (8)

1864

Finnish peasants allowed to buy land.

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Finnish Reino, Eino, Toivo, Wilho, Armas, Aarne, Aarre, Aatos, Arvi, Kaarin, Raili, Sulo. Scandinavian Alvar, Swen, Iver, Nels, Viljo.

Finnish: from aho ‘glade, forest clearing’ (areas of woodland adjacent to farmhouses were cleared by slash-and-burn techniques to produce glades, which eventually became pastureland). The name is recorded in the Karelian Isthmus in eastern Finland from the 16th century. In northern Finland this was a popular ornamental surname, adopted especially among people converting from Swedish surnames to Finnish in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In North America, Aho may also be a shortened form of the cognate Ahonen .

Assyrian/Chaldean: from a short form of the personal name Ahikar, name of ancient Assyrian origin, borne by a semi-legendary sage.

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

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