Louisa Statira Foote

Brief Life History of Louisa Statira

When Louisa Statira Foote was born on 23 July 1840, in Nicholson, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Gideon Foote, was 41 and her mother, Lavina Gillett, was 44. She married Birdcile Myrtle about 1870, in Lenoxville, Lenox Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Lenox, Lenox Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Lenox Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States for about 60 years. She died on 3 January 1926, at the age of 85, and was buried in Clifford Cemetery, Clifford Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Birdcile Myrtle
1836–
Louisa Statira Foote
1840–1926
Marriage: about 1870
John B Foote Myrtle
1871–

Sources (14)

  • J Foot in household of W Halstead, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Louisa S. Myrtle, "World Miscellaneous Births and Baptisms, 1534-1983"
  • Louisa S Myrtle, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"

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World Events (8)

1842

Historical Boundaries: 1842: Wyoming, Pennsylvania, United States

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: from Middle English fot ‘foot’ (Old English fōt), sometimes translated in medieval documents by Latin cum pede ‘with the foot’. Probably a nickname for someone with a deformity of the foot or with large feet.

English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English personal name Fot, from Old Norse Fótr, originally a nickname with the same sense as 1 above.

English: topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.

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

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