Brief Life History of Mayme Ann Elliott
When Mayme Ann Elliott Schill was born on 21 May 1883, in California, United States, her father, Antonio Schill, was 37 and her mother, Josephene T. Wackenheim, was 21. She married Willard Henderson Best on 26 August 1926, in San Benito, California, United States. She died on 24 November 1945, in San Benito, California, United States, at the age of 62.
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- Mayme Best in household of Willard H Best, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mayme Ann Elliott Schill - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Maymi Schill
- Mayme Ann Eliot, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
German: habitational name from Schill, a place in Silesia. Compare Shill .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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