Brief Life History of Lucy Abigail
When Lucy Abigail Durant was born on 28 October 1878, in Jonesville, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States, her father, Pliny Ayres Durant, was 24 and her mother, Eunice Merry Weed Viles, was 25. She married George Henry Viles on 27 May 1907, in Benton, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Felida, Clark, Washington, United States in 1940 and Clark, Washington, United States for about 1 years. In 1910, at the age of 32, her occupation is listed as music teacher in Prosser, Benton, Washington, United States. She died on 19 October 1962, in Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Evergreen Memorial Gardens, Evergreen, Clark, Washington, United States.
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- Lucy A Viles, "United States 1950 Census"
- Lucy A Durant, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
- Lucy Abigail Durant Viles, "Find A Grave Index"
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1879
Historical Boundaries 1879: Yakima, Washington Territory, United States 1889: Yakima, Washington, United States 1905: Benton, Washington, United States
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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and French: variant of Durand .
English: variant of Darwent, a habitational name from Derwent in Derbyshire (now submerged by the Ladybower Reservoir) or Darwen in Lancashire, both named from rivers called Derwent, or, less frequently, from similarly named rivers in Cumbria, Durham, Northumbria, and Yorkshire, from a Celtic river name meaning ‘river where oak-trees grow abundantly’.
Altered form of French Doiron .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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