Brief Life History of Laura May
When Laura May Wood was born on 23 July 1894, in Westport, Brown, Dakota Territory, United States, her father, David William Wood, was 37 and her mother, Marie Appoline Michaut, was 24. She married James Peacocke on 2 September 1912, in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Columbia, Brown, South Dakota, United States in 1900 and Tacoma Election Precinct, Pierce, Washington, United States in 1940. She died on 24 December 1984, in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States.
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- Laura Stephenson in household of Raymond Stephenson, "United States Census, 1940"
- Laura May Wood, "Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965"
- Laura M Peacocke, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
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World Events (8)
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.
1897 · Seattle Grows Quickly
The Klondike gold rush started in 1896 in Canada, but by 1897 as miners started moving and following the gold it caused for Seattle to rapidly grow as more miners joined the search for gold.
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
English: mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, such as French Bois and Polish Les .
English: in a few cases, a nickname for an eccentric or perhaps a violent person, from Middle English wode ‘frenzied, wild’ (Old English wōd).
Americanized form of French Gadbois .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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