Lou Weaver

Brief Life History of Lou

When Lou Weaver was born on 19 June 1883, in Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas, United States, her father, Ewing Burrow Weaver, was 33 and her mother, Elsie Elizabeth Hooten, was 28. She married Richard Paris Williams on 26 June 1901, in Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Compton Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940 and South Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 1 years. She died on 20 February 1963, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 79.

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Family Time Line

Richard Paris Williams
1880–1951
Lou Weaver
1883–1963
Marriage: 26 June 1901
Richard Bruce Williams
1902–1988
Rupert Carl Williams
1905–1980
Floyd B. Williams
1907–1987
Owen Ralph Williams
1909–1982
Leonard Van Williams
1912–1913
Ruby P. Williams
1915–2014
Edward B Williams
1916–2003
Thomas Orville Williams
1918–1950
Robert L. Williams
1922–1997

Sources (37)

  • Lou Williams, "United States, Census, 1950"
  • Lou Weaver, "Arizona, Birth Certificates and Indexes, 1855-1940"
  • Lou Williams, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name, from an agent derivative of Middle English weven ‘to weave’ (Old English wefan).

English: habitational name from a place on the Weaver river in Cheshire, now called Weaver Hall but recorded simply as Weuere in the 13th and 14th centuries. The river name is from Old English wēfer(e) ‘winding stream’.

Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘weaver’, for example German Weber , Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) Tkacz or Tkach , Hungarian Takács (see Takacs ), and Slovenian Tkalec, Tekavec or Veber .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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