Brief Life History of Laura Jane
When Laura Jane McKinney was born on 3 November 1881, in Cabool, Texas, Missouri, United States, her father, Pinkney Jeff Davis McKinney, was 20 and her mother, Elizabeth Caroline Stogsdill, was 20. She married Aaron Abraham Alward on 28 June 1900, in Gage, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Gage, Nebraska, United States in 1920 and Lincoln Township, Gage, Nebraska, United States in 1930. She died on 6 February 1964, in Beatrice, Gage, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Beatrice, Gage, Nebraska, United States.
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- Laura J Alward, "United States 1950 Census"
- Laura Mckinney, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
- Laura J. McKinney Alward, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cionaodha or Mac Cionaoith ‘son of ç’, an early Gaelic personal name popular from the ninth century and possibly derived from Pictish.
Irish (northern): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinnigh ‘son of Coinneach’, an Old Irish personal name, borne by a Christian saint and Anglicized in Ireland as Canice, which was treated in Scotland as equivalent to Kenneth . This surname was usually Anglicized in Scotland as McKenzie , but is otherwise hard to distinguish from sense 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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