Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth
When Mary Elizabeth Luper was born on 16 September 1863, in Arkansas, United States, her father, Gilbert Cox Luper Jr, was 25 and her mother, Rebecca Taylor, was 26. She married Charles Kingsley Currin on 20 November 1881, in Nez Perce, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Nez Perce, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Whitman, Washington, United States in 1930. She died on 30 April 1937, at the age of 73.
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- M E Luper in household of A C Luper, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Elizabeth Luper - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Mary Elizabeth Luper
- Lizzie Luper, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
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1864 · Skirmish at Benton
Confederate forces in Arkansas began an invasion of Missouri, while other Confederate sources probed the line around Little Rock. On July 6, 1864 the fourth Arkansas Cavalry tried to break the line around Little Rock one soldier was killed, eight were wounded, three went missing from the Union side and four were killed and six wounded from the Confederate side.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
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Altered form of Dutch Looper .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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