Harriet Lorella Waddell

Brief Life History of Harriet Lorella

When Harriet Lorella Waddell was born on 4 April 1887, in Niantic, Macon, Illinois, United States, her father, William Albert Waddell, was 28 and her mother, Mary E. Judd, was 25. She married Robert J. Moore on 4 January 1912, in Niantic, Macon, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Niantic Township, Macon, Illinois, United States in 1920. She died on 20 January 1920, in Niantic, Macon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Long Point Cemetery, Niantic, Macon, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert J. Moore
1886–1958
Harriet Lorella Waddell
1887–1920
Marriage: 4 January 1912
Mildred L. Moore
1914–1991
Robert Russell Moore
1918–1946

Sources (10)

  • Hattie Moore in household of Robert R Moore, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Hattieta L. Moore, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
  • Harriet L Waddell, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"

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1898 · War with the Spanish

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Name Meaning

Scottish: habitational name from Wedale near Galashiels (Selkirkshire). This was also the old name of the parish of Stow in Midlothian. The placename may be from Old English wēoh ‘heathen shrine’ (and if so, an example which is unusually far north, and therefore Old English wēod ‘weed, herb’ might be preferred) + dæl ‘hollow, dell’.

English: habitational name from Wadden Hall in Waltham (Kent). The placename may derive from an Old English personal name Wæda (genitive Wæden) or Old English wāden ‘growing with woad’ + Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’.

English: perhaps a habitational name from Woodhill Park in Clyffe Pypard (Wiltshire). The placename derives from Old English wād ‘woad’ + hyll ‘hill’. Alternatively, this name might derive from a hypothetical Middle English personal name Wadel (Old English Wædel).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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