Brief Life History of Etta Florence
When Etta Florence Painter was born on 6 October 1873, in Delaware, United States, her father, William J Painter, was 32 and her mother, Hannah Coffman, was 27. She married Sylvester Harve Rawlins on 7 February 1897, in Delaware, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Mount Pleasant Township, Delaware, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Center Township, Delaware, Indiana, United States in 1900. She died on 24 February 1902, at the age of 28.
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- Etta F. Painter in household of Wm. J. Painter, "United States Census, 1880"
- Etta Florence Rawlins, "Indiana Deaths and Burials, 1750-1993"
- Etta Florence Painter in entry for Sylvester H. Rawlins, "Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
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.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English peintour, painter, peintir, penter, pointour (Old French peintour, paintour) ‘painter of images (on walls, screens, shields, etc.), colorist (of statues, figurines, chests, etc.), artist’. In the Middle Ages the walls of both great and minor churches were covered with painted decorations, and Reaney and Wilson note that in 1308 Hugh le Peyntour and Peter the Pavier were employed ‘making and painting the pavement’ at Saint Stephen's Chapel, Westminster. The name is widespread in England.
Americanized form of German Bender . Compare Bainter .
Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian Pajntar or Panjtar, topographic names from the field name Pajnta or Na Pajnti, which is derived from Middle High German biunt(e) ‘fenced agricultural land’ (compare German Paintner ), or perhaps from Bavarian Middle High German pant ‘band’ (compare Panter 4).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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