Brief Life History of Flora Ella
When Flora Ella White was born on 22 February 1885, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Arvin Clark White, was 52 and her mother, Hannah Ada Gallup, was 23. She married Harry Bert Oviatt in 1906, in Port Allegany, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Genesee, Genesee Township, Potter, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930 and Keating Township, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. She died on 8 November 1945, in Port Allegany, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Smethport, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Flora L Aviatt in household of Harry B Aviatt, "United States Census, 1940"
- Flora E Oviatt, "Find A Grave Index"
- Flora E White in entry for Marcella O Fox, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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