Alice Ellen Culver

Brief Life History of Alice Ellen

When Alice Ellen Culver was born on 23 January 1894, in New York, United States, her father, Philip S. Culver, was 29 and her mother, Minnie Hyde, was 34. She married Oscar Russell Lacy Jr on 14 February 1912, in Yates, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Penn Yan, Yates, New York, United States in 1910 and Milo, Yates, New York, United States for about 15 years. She died in January 1975, in Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Penn Yan, Yates, New York, United States.

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Family Time Line

Oscar Russell Lacy Jr
1886–1955
Alice Ellen Culver
1894–1975
Marriage: 14 February 1912
Margaret Ellen Lacy
1913–1981
Helen Lacy
1916–1995
Janet Elizabeth Lacy
1918–2013
Oscar Russell Lacy III
1920–1923
William Culver Lacy
1928–2006

Sources (18)

  • Alice Lacy in household of Oscar Lacy, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Alice Ellen Culver - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Alice Ellen Culver
  • Alice Culver, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"

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Name Meaning

English (Kent): from Middle English culver, colver ‘dove’ (Old English culfre, Late Latin columbula, a diminutive of columba), which Reaney suggests was used as a term of endearment. It may therefore have been applied as nickname for a lovelorn youth or perhaps for someone who used the expression indiscriminately. Otherwise, it may have been a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of doves or a nickname for someone bearing some fancied resemblance to a dove, such as mildness of temper.

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

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