Brief Life History of Donna Viola
When Donna Viola Miles was born on 16 January 1864, in Gentry, Missouri, United States, her father, Isaac Miles, was 26 and her mother, Martha Jane Peery, was 24. She married John Kirkpatrick Fitzgerald on 11 June 1882, in Albany, Gentry, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Republic, Kansas, United States in 1910 and Big Bend Township, Republic, Kansas, United States for about 30 years. She died on 21 August 1940, in Hardy, Nuckolls, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Hardy City Cemetery, Hardy, Nuckolls, Nebraska, United States.
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- D V Fitzgerald, "United States Census, 1910"
- Viola Miles, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
- Donna Viola Miles Fitzgerald, "Find A Grave Index"
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1867
Nebraska is the 37th state.
1875
Historical Boundaries: 1875: Nuckolls, Nebraska, United States
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Mile + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or from its other Old French form Miles, a derivative of ancient Germanic Milo, based on the element mil, from mel ‘good, generous’. The Old French oblique case form was Milon (see Milon 1). Compare Millen and Millson .
English: variant, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, of Myhill , from a vernacular form of the Biblical name Michael . Miles Coverdale, the translator of the Bible, when in Germany, called himself Michael Anglus (‘the Englishman’).
Irish (Louth and Kilkenny): when not the same as 1 or 2, it is sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuire, see Myles .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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