When Jane Orr was born on 13 May 1861, in East Longmeadow, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Samuel J. Orr, was 29 and her mother, Sarah Heyburn, was 27. She married Frederick Keith Elwood on 6 September 1881, in Anamosa, Jones, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 daughters. She lived in Cresco, Howard, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States in 1930. She died on 12 December 1938, in Lime Springs, Howard, Iowa, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Wyoming, Jones, Iowa, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1866: Howard, Iowa, United States
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.
English: from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Orre (Old Norse Orri, originally a byname meaning ‘black grouse’).
Scottish (southwestern): nickname from Scottish Gaelic odhar ‘dun, of sallow complexion’. This surname is also common in Ireland. It was brought to Ulster from Scotland in the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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