Brief Life History of Louise May
When Louise May West was born on 8 January 1856, in Texas, United States, her father, Washington West, was 42 and her mother, Mary B. Willauer, was 32. She married Henry B Shiner on 25 March 1874, in Sweet Home, Lavaca, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 3, Lavaca, Texas, United States in 1880 and Justice Precinct 1, McMullen, Texas, United States in 1910. She died on 1 May 1928, in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States.
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- Lola Shiner in household of H B Shiner, "United States Census, 1880"
- Low West, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
- Louise West Shiner, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1858
Historical Boundaries: 1858: McMullen, Texas, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English and German: from Middle English, Middle High German west ‘west’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived to the west of a settlement, or a habitational name for someone who had migrated from further west.
Americanized form of Finnish Vesterinen: from the personal name Vesteri (a short form of Sylvester ) + the surname suffix -nen.
History: This name was brought to North America independently by many bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Thomas West, 12th Baron De La Warre, was captain general of Virginia in 1610–11. The state of DE is named for him. One of the earliest permanent settlers was Francis West (1606–92), who came to Duxbury, MA, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, in or before 1638.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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