Brief Life History of Elsie Gertrude
When Elsie Gertrude Davis was born on 6 June 1886, in Kansas, United States, her father, Jink Davis, was 25 and her mother, Nancy Gertrude Wrighter, was 22. She married Ralph Moton on 13 September 1904, in Dayton, Columbia, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Columbia, Washington, United States in 1910 and Star Election Precinct, Columbia, Washington, United States in 1930. She died on 26 November 1938, in Dayton, Columbia, Washington, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Waitsburg, Walla Walla, Washington, United States.
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- Elsie Molton in household of Ralph Molton, "United States Census, 1930"
- Elsie Davis, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
- Elsie Gertrude Davis Moton, "Find A Grave Index"
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1889
Washington became the forty-second state of the United States of America on November 11, 1889. After a hiatus of thirteen years when no new states were admitted to the Union, the United States Congress passed an act enabling the territories of Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana to seek statehood. Before statehood could be conferred, a state constitution had to be written and passed by the Territories.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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