Brief Life History of Nettie Norissa
When Nettie Norissa Barr was born on 2 December 1880, in Jackson, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Robert Allen Barr, was 28 and her mother, Norissa Elgiva Thomas, was 23. She married Chauncey Russell Primmer on 10 July 1899, in Humbird, Clark, Wisconsin, United States. She lived in Green Bluff, Spokane, Washington, United States for about 20 years and Green Bluff Township, Spokane, Washington, United States in 1940. She died on 2 August 1969, in Mead, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Mead, Spokane, Washington, United States.
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- Nettie Primmer in household of Chancey Primmer, "United States Census, 1940"
- Nettie N. Barr, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
- Nettie N. Barr Primmer, "Find A Grave Index"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1889
Historic Boundaries 1889: Spokane, Washington, United States
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Glasgow) and northern Irish (Ulster): habitational name from any of various places in southwestern Scotland, in particular Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, named with Gaelic barr ‘height, hill’ or a Brittonic cognate of this.
English and Welsh: habitational name from Great Barr in Staffordshire. This is from Brittonic barro- ‘top, summit’, referring to Barr Beacon; there is evidence that this was known as la Bare in the 13th century.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Barre-en-Ouche in Eure, France, or perhaps from Barre-de-Semilly in Manche, France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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