Brief Life History of Ethel Mira
When Ethel Mira Reese was born on 1 September 1882, in Florin, Sacramento, California, United States, her father, David D Reese, was 33 and her mother, Mira L Kilgore, was 24. She married Joseph Francis Didion on 3 October 1905, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States in 1910. She died on 14 November 1918, in Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States.
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- Ethel M Dulion, "United States Census, 1910"
- Ethel M Reese, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Ethel Mira Reese Didion, "Find A Grave Index"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
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.
Name Meaning
Welsh: variant of Rice .
North German and Dutch (De Reese): nickname for a very big man, from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch rese ‘giant’.
German: habitational name from any of the places called Rees or Reese, in Rhineland and Lower Saxony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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