Brief Life History of Laura Belle
When Laura Belle Honaker was born in July 1877, in Rocky Gap, Bland, Virginia, United States, her father, James D. Honaker, was 30 and her mother, Susan H. Linkous, was 22. She married Thomas Pritchard Smith about 1902, in Mannington, Marion, West Virginia, United States. She lived in Union District, Lincoln, West Virginia, United States in 1900 and Carroll District, Lincoln, West Virginia, United States in 1910. She died on 19 September 1911, in Lincoln, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Sias, Lincoln, West Virginia, United States.
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- L.r.b. Honaker, "United States Census, 1880"
- Laura Smith, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"
- Plumley Cemetery
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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.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of Swiss German Honegger .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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