Brief Life History of Olive
When Olive Richardson was born on 21 May 1891, in Grayson, Kentucky, United States, her father, John Ganaway Richardson, was 30 and her mother, Kettamore Correnor Skaggs, was 28. She died on 7 November 1893, in her hometown, at the age of 2, and was buried in Clarkson, Grayson, Kentucky, United States.
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Family Time Line
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- Olive Richardson, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (1)
1892 · The Radio is invented
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Richard + -son. This surname is also very common among African Americans. Compare Ritson .
Americanized form (and a Swedish variant) of Swedish Richardsson or Rikardsson: patronymic from the personal name Richard , Rikard.
Americanized form of Norwegian and Danish Richardsen or Norwegian Rikardsen, cognates of 2 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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