When Nancy E. Lester was born on 4 July 1879, in Mercer, Kentucky, United States, her father, Thomas P Moore Lester, was 29 and her mother, Olive C Purdom, was 28. She lived in Rose Hill, Mercer, Kentucky, United States in 1900. She died on 30 November 1946, in Danville, Boyle, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Bruners Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery, Harrodstown, Kentucky, Virginia, United States.
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Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
On May 30, 18944 the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument was unveiled. It is 73 feet high and over looks Libby Hill Park. the statue represents the 13 Confederate States.
On March 11, 1899 the USS Shubrick was laid, on October 31, 1899 it was launched. The ship was named after William Branford Shubrick. It was sponsored by Miss Caroline Shubrick and commissioned in 1901 with Lt Allen M Cook in command.
English: habitational name from Leicester, which is recorded as Ligeraceastre in the 10th century. The placename derives from an Old English folk name Legore ‘the dwellers by the river Legor (a lost river name)’ + Old English ceaster ‘city, Roman fortification’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Lestre in Normandy.
English and Scottish: variant of Lister .
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