Brief Life History of Edith May
When Edith May Carson was born on 9 May 1890, in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States, her father, James Porter Carson, was 35 and her mother, Hattie Eliza Pollok, was 31. She married Brandt Armstrong on 8 December 1908, in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Castle Butte Township, Pennington, South Dakota, United States in 1930. She died on 18 October 1965, in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States.
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- Edith M Armstrong, "United States 1950 Census"
- Edith Carson, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
- Edith May Carson Armstrong, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
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Name Meaning
Scottish (Galloway) and northern Irish: probably a habitational name from an unlocated place in southwestern Scotland called Acarson or Carsan. This surname was taken to Northern Ireland in the early 17th century. Alternatively, it may be a hybrid patronymic name composed of Irish cearr ‘left-handed’ + English son ‘son’.
English: variant of Corston, a habitational name from one of the many places so called in Norfolk, Shropshire, Somerset, or Wiltshire.
In some cases also an Americanized form of Norwegian Kåsen (see Kasen ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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