Brief Life History of Edna Mae
When Edna Mae Johnston was born on 27 May 1891, in Hannibal, Marion, Missouri, United States, her father, James Johnston, was 51 and her mother, Miranda Elizabeth Daulton, was 35. She married Ralph Martin Weidenhamer on 23 January 1919, in Hannibal, Marion, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. She lived in Saverton Township, Ralls, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 29 July 1945, in Alliance, Box Butte, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Alliance Cemetery, Alliance, Box Butte, Nebraska, United States.
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- Edna M Weidenhamer in household of Ralph M Weidenhamer, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Edna Johnston - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Edna Johnston
- Edna May Weidenhamer, "Find A Grave Index"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name, deriving in most cases from the place so called in Annandale, in Dumfriesshire. This is derived from the genitive case of the personal name John + + Middle English ton ‘town, village, settlement’ (Old English tūn). There are other places in Scotland so called, including the city of Perth, which used to be known as Saint John's Toun, and some of these may also be sources of the surname.
English: habitational name from Johnson Hall (Staffordshire), recorded as Johannestonc. 1233 and Joneston in 1314. The placename means ‘John's settlement’, from the genitive case of the Middle English personal name Johan, Jon (see John ) + Middle English ton ‘town, village, settlement’.
History: As far as can be ascertained, most Scottish bearers of this surname are descendants of John, probably a Norman baron from England, who held lands at Johnstone in Annandale from the Bruce family in the late 12th century. His son Gilbert was the first to take the surname Johnstone and their descendants later held the earldom of Annandale.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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