Brief Life History of Laura
When Laura Lee was born on 19 August 1878, in Buckner, Jackson, Missouri, United States, her father, Edmund R. Lee, was 37 and her mother, Eliza A. Mc Millen, was 36. She had at least 1 daughter with Henry Elmore Barnett. She died on 12 September 1952, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 74.
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- Laura Barnett in household of Henry E Barnett, "United States Census, 1920"
- Laura Lee in entry for Yvette Barnett Guffey, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
- Laura Lee in household of Edward R Lee, "United States Census, 1880"
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World Events (8)
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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
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.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Sang, Jae, Jong, Jung, Sung, Yong, Kyung, Seung, Dong, Kwang, Myung.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.
English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood, glade’, including Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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