When Lucy Ellen Via was born on 9 October 1843, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Overton Via, was 38 and her mother, Martha Tarver, was 36. She married William Gunderson Myers on 25 October 1866, in Hickman, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 3 Buggs, Hickman, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Bugg, Hickman, Kentucky, United States in 1920. She died on 13 February 1924, in Wingo, Graves, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Hickman, Kentucky, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries 1854: Graves, Kentucky, United States
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Altered form of French Viar 1 or perhaps of some other similar (like-sounding) French surname, such as Vier 3 and Viat, a cognate of Viet 2. Alternatively, a Frenchified form of an unidentified German surname. Compare Viar 2, Viars , Vier 2, and Vire .
Italian (southern): from a short form of a personal name or surname ending with -via, for example Bellavia .
Italian (southern): from a variant of Bia, a personal name of Greek origin, a calque of Latin Vita ‘life’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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