Laura M. Pickett

Brief Life History of Laura M.

When Laura M. Pickett was born on 23 October 1880, in Hamilton, Indiana, United States, her father, Job Stover Pickett, was 31 and her mother, Mary Jane McLaughlin, was 23. She married Joseph Oliver Mills on 16 April 1904, in Hamilton, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Westfield Washington Township, Hamilton, Indiana, United States in 1910. She died on 17 August 1972, in Lebanon, Boone, Indiana, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Eagle Creek Cemetery, Westfield Washington Township, Hamilton, Indiana, United States.

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Joseph Oliver Mills
1869–1942
Laura M. Pickett
1880–1972
Marriage: 16 April 1904
Abatie Clark
1888–

Sources (8)

  • Laura M. Millo[sic] (wife of Joseph O. Millo[sic]), "United States Census, 1920" (Washington Twp, Hamilton, Indiana)
  • Laura Pickett & J. O. Mills, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007" (Hamilton Co.: 1904)
  • Laura Mills, "United States Social Security Death Index" (Lebanon, Boone, Indiana: 1972)

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World Events (8)

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.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

Name Meaning

English:

from the Middle English, Old French personal name Picot, Pigot, a pet form of Pic (see Pike 6). In Middle English, the form Piket (Old French Picquet) was also common.

sometimes a late development of Pickard 1 or 2.

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

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