Pearl Caroline Morrison

Brief Life History of Pearl Caroline

When Pearl Caroline Morrison was born on 14 September 1899, in Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States, her father, Edward Oliver Morrison, was 50 and her mother, Elsie Etta Slack, was 39. She married Joseph Roscoe Jaggers in 1918, in Weiser, Washington, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Election Precinct 45 East Wapato, Yakima, Washington, United States in 1940 and Wapato, Yakima, Washington, United States in 1957. She died on 1 September 1957, in Yakima, Yakima, Washington, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Weiser, Washington, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Roscoe Jaggers
1885–1967
Pearl Caroline Morrison
1899–1957
Marriage: 1918
Arlo Jaggers
1919–2008

Sources (7)

  • Pearl Jaggers in household of Joseph R Jaggers, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Pearl Caroline Jaggers, "Washington Death Certificates, 1907-1960"
  • Mrs Joe Jaggers in entry for Mr Claude C Morrison, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

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World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1900 · Frederick Weyerhaeuser's Logging Business

Weyerhaeuser Company started with 900,000 acres of timberland, with barely 3 employees and a small office in Tacoma, Washington. It has grown to become one of the largest sustainable forest products companies in the world.

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

Name Meaning

Irish: from Ó Muirgheasáin ‘descendant of Muirgheasán’, a diminutive of Muirgheas, a personal name meaning ‘sea valor’.

Scottish: from Gaelic Mac Moireasdain ‘son of Moireasdan’, a personal name cognate with Irish Muirgheasán’ (see 1 above).

Scottish and English: patronymic from the personal name Morris .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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