Brief Life History of Alice Almeda
When Alice Almeda Martin was born in November 1870, in Illinois, United States, her father, William Riley Martin, was 47 and her mother, Laura Emma Evans, was 20. She married John H. Tweedy on 20 August 1890, in Alto Pass, Union, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Dongola Precinct, Union, Illinois, United States in 1940 and Union Precinct, Union, Illinois, United States in 1950. She died on 26 June 1955, in Alto Pass, Union, Illinois, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Alto Pass, Union, Illinois, United States.
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- Alice H Tweedy in household of John W Tweedy, "United States Census, 1940"
- Alice Martin, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Alice A Tweedy, "Find A Grave Index"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1875
Historical Boundaries: 1875: Union, Illinois, United States
1893 · The World's Columbian Exposition
Also known as the Chicago World's Fair, The Exposition was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. The centerpiece of the Fair was a large water pool that represented Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas. The Fair had a profound effect on new architecture designs, sanitation advancement, and the arts. The Fairgrounds were given the nickname the White City due to its lavish paint and materials used to constuct it. Over 27 million people attended the fair during its six-month of operation. Among many of the invetions exhibited there was the first Ferris wheel built to rival the Eiffel Tower in France.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.
English: variant of Marton .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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