Brief Life History of Adelia Douglas
When Adelia Douglas Earp was born on 16 June 1861, in Pella, Marion, Iowa, United States, her father, Nicholas Porter Earp, was 47 and her mother, Virginia Ann Cooksey, was 40. She married William Thomas Edwards on 12 April 1877, in Peace, Autauga, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and San Antonio Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 16 January 1941, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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- Adelia D Edwards in household of Jack Bessant, "United States Census, 1940"
- Adelia Douglas Edwards, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Adelia Douglas Edwards, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Derbyshire): nickname from Middle English erp, irpe, orp, an unrecorded survival of Old English earp, ierpe, and eorp ‘swarthy’.
Americanized form of German Erp .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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