Brief Life History of Louesy Julia C “Lou”
When Louesy Julia C “Lou” Crabtree was born on 7 September 1879, in Lee, Kentucky, United States, her father, Elkanah Jerdan Crabtree, was 24 and her mother, Malissa Combs, was 27. She married William Tennessee Smyth in 1894, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 5, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1880. She died on 24 March 1901, in Lee, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Smyth Cemetery, Lee, Kentucky, United States.
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- Louesy C Crabtree in household of Elkanah J Crabtree, "United States Census, 1880"
- Lulie C. Crabtree, "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979"
- Lou C. Smyth, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from a lost place in Sowerbyshire, Yorkshire named Crabtree, named from Middle English crabbetre ‘crab-apple tree’. In some instances possibly a topographic name for someone who lived by a crab-apple tree.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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