When So'oletala Fonoti was born on 19 March 1901, in Vatia, Vaifanua, Eastern, American Samoa, her father, Viliamu Asuega Fonoti, was 29 and her mother, Suavaitotoolevaifagaloa Tuiasosopo, was 19. She married Teutusi Satele in 1917, in Tutuila, Eastern, American Samoa. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Fagatogo, Maoputasi, Eastern, American Samoa in 1930. She died on 3 February 1976, in Vailoatai, Tualatai, Western, American Samoa, at the age of 74, and was buried in Vailoatai, Tualatai, Western, American Samoa.
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New Zealand occupies Western Samoa during World War I and continues to administer it after the war by virtue of a League of Nations mandate (and a United Nations mandate after World War II).
American Samoa is devestated by a hurricane. Olosega, in the Manua Islands, suffered the most. The Navy Department gave the Territory 50 tons of rice, 10 tons of salmon and 15 tons of biscuits.
U.S. troops are stationed in Western Samoa during World War II, but no battles are fought on the islands.
Samoan: unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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