Brief Life History of Olivia Letha
When Olivia Letha Jones was born on 2 March 1877, in Buffalo, Putnam, West Virginia, United States, her father, Julius Jones, was 22 and her mother, Frances Jeffers, was 19. She married Henry Ebenezer Sisson in 1896, in Putnam, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Olive Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States for about 30 years. She died on 7 January 1955, in Long Bottom, Olive Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Sand Hill Cemetery, Olive Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States.
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- Olivia Sisson in household of Henry Sisson, "United States Census, 1900"
- Lethe Jones, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Olivia Jones Congrove, "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.
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
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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