Brief Life History of Lucy Caroline Eva
When Lucy Caroline Eva Swain was born in September 1882, in Lees Mills Township, Washington, North Carolina, United States, her father, Edward Swain, was 33 and her mother, Harriet Ann Caroline Ayers, was 33. She married James Henry Vail on 30 December 1900, in Lees Mills Township, Washington, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 23 July 1920, in Lees Mills Township, Washington, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Saints Delight Church, Washington, North Carolina, United States.
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- Lucy C Vail in household of James H Vail, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Lucy C. Eva Swain - Government record: birth: 22 October 1883; Lees Mills Township, Washington, North Carolina, United States
- Lucy Swain, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
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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
English: from the Middle English personal name Swain, Swein (Old Norse Sveinn, Sven, from sveinn ‘lad’).
English: occupational name from Middle English swein ‘servant, attendant; boy, young man’ (Old Norse sveinn). The word could also denote a swineherd or a peasant in general. The name was thoroughly confused with Swan 1.
Irish: when not the English name, possibly an Anglicized form of Mac Suibhne; see McSwain .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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