Brief Life History of Lofton L.
When Lofton L. Nave was born on 1 July 1892, in Oak Grove, Jackson, Missouri, United States, his father, William Lee Nave, was 30 and his mother, Ida L. J. Shore, was 19. He married Myrtle L. King on 3 July 1927, in Oak Grove, Jackson, Missouri, United States. He lived in Van Buren Township, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Sni-A-Bar Township, Lafayette, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. He died on 5 December 1957, in Oak Grove, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Oak Grove, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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- Lofton Nane in household of William Nane, "United States Census, 1910"
- Lofton L Nave, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Lofton L Nave, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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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1910 · The BSA is Made
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Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a servant, from Middle English knave ‘lad, servant’, Old English cnafa.
German (also Näve): variant of Neff (see Neve ).
In some cases possibly Portuguese: topographic name from nave ‘plain’ (a variant of nava), or a habitational name from a place called with this word. Compare Nava .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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