Brief Life History of Anna Avarilla
When Anna Avarilla Davis was born on 1 December 1877, in Willmathsville, Adair, Missouri, United States, her father, Luther Davis, was 29 and her mother, Mary Jane Friend, was 26. She married John Oliver Thomas on 30 November 1896, in Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 8 October 1954, in Lake Hughes, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Lancaster, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Anna Thomas in household of George L Thomas, "United States Census, 1930"
- Anna Averilla Thomas, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Anna Avarilla Thomas, "Utah, County Marriages, 1871-1941"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1889
Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
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.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .
History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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