Brief Life History of Luverne Eleanor
When Luverne Eleanor Peterson was born on 6 April 1918, in Minnesota, United States, her father, Elmer John Peterson, was 27 and her mother, Hazel Gladys Nelson Peterson, was 21. She married James Frank Zrucky on 27 August 1940. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Watopa Township, Wabasha, Minnesota, United States in 1920 and Austin Township, Mower, Minnesota, United States in 1950. She died on 20 January 1973, in Austin, Mower, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 54.
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- Luverne Zrucky, "United States 1950 Census"
- Luverne Eleaner Stephens, "Minnesota, County Deaths, 1850-2001"
- Luverne Peterson, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1931 · The Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Woman was the name given to the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old found near Pelican Rapids. The bones were brought to the University of Minnesota for more study. Later, Dr. Albert Jenks identified them as the bones of a 15 or 16 year old woman. Scientists now recognize the girl as someone whose ancestors were Paleo-Indian and now her skeletal remains have been reburied in South Dakota, not available for further study.
1933 · The Browns Valley Man
Just like the Minnesota Woman, The Browns Valley Man are deemed the oldest human remains found in Minnesota. They were found by W. H. Jenson, while he was laying gravel for his driveway, in the Traverse gap in western Minnesota. The remains are believed to be around 9,000 years old.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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