Brief Life History of Leah
When Leah Reecher was born on 2 July 1874, in Whiteside, Illinois, United States, her father, Samuel Reecher, was 45 and her mother, Leah Hoffman, was 39. She married Edward Elmer Jones about 1892, in Whiteside, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Clyde Township, Whiteside, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Mount Pleasant Township, Whiteside, Illinois, United States in 1910. She died on 21 November 1918, in Morrison, Whiteside, Illinois, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Morrison, Whiteside, Illinois, United States.
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- Leah Jones in household of Edward E Jones, "United States Census, 1910"
- Leah D. Jones, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Leah D. Reecher Jones, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1877 · The First Workers Strike
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English:
variant of Renshaw .
perhaps also a nickname from Middle English wrench ‘trick, wile, deceit’ + the derivational suffix -er, with the sense ‘trickster’; compare Rench .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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