Margaret Lillian Drum

Brief Life History of Margaret Lillian

When Margaret Lillian Drum was born on 11 November 1883, in Vernon, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Mathias Drum, was 34 and her mother, Mary Jane Cummings, was 33. She married Robert Franklin Avery on 21 January 1903, in Fairfield, Jefferson, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Polk, Nebraska, United States in 1885 and Ogallala, Keith, Nebraska, United States in 1910. She died on 6 January 1919, in Osceola, Polk, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Polk, Nebraska, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Franklin Avery
1873–1962
Margaret Lillian Drum
1883–1919
Marriage: 21 January 1903
Floyd Milo Avery
1903–1973
Robert Edward Avery
1905–1907
Edith Mae Avery
1907–1974
Elsie Myra Avery
1909–1993
Leona Marie Avery
1911–1965
Wynona Lenore Avery
1914–1974
Mayme Belle Avery
1916–1976

Sources (15)

  • Margaret Dunn in household of Mathias Dunn, "Nebraska State Census, 1885"
  • Maggie Drum, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
  • Maggie L Avery, "United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1886 · Giving Working Men a Union

The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.

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.

Name Meaning

Irish (Fermanagh and Cavan): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Droma ‘descendant of Droma’, a personal name, which may be from druim ‘back, ridge’ and have been given originally to someone with a deformed back. Compare Drumm .

German: nickname from Middle Low German drum, Middle High German trum ‘woodblock, uncouth person’.

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

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