When Neva Rebecca Sawyer was born on 18 March 1897, in Lane, Kansas, United States, her father, Joseph Leason Sawyer Jr., was 26 and her mother, Esther Ella Wolfe, was 20. She married Peter Corbet William Sparks on 3 June 1917, in Warrensburg, Johnson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Spring Creek, Chautauqua, Kansas, United States in 1910 and Election Precinct 9, Mesa, Colorado, United States in 1940. She died on 18 October 1957, in Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Oklahoma is the 46th state.
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
English: occupational name for someone who earned his living by sawing wood, from Middle English sauer(e), sauw(i)er, also sagh(i)er, sag(i)er ‘sawyer’, a derivative of Old English sagu ‘saw’.
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname, or translation into English of Jewish Seger or some other surname meaning ‘sawyer’, e.g. German Sager and Slovenian Žagar (see Zagar ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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