Brief Life History of Clara Erwin
When Clara Erwin Anderson was born on 14 February 1885, in Hickman, Tennessee, United States, her father, Richard J Anderson, was 41 and her mother, Josephine Olevia Cathey, was 36. She married Henry Brown Church on 8 November 1906, in Hickman, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Civil District 2, Maury, Tennessee, United States in 1940 and Maury, Tennessee, United States in 1950. She died on 13 January 1971, in Columbia, Maury, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Shady Grove, Hickman, Tennessee, United States.
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- Clara Ervine Church, "United States 1950 Census"
- Clara Anderson, "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
- Clara E Anderson Church in entry for Ophelia Twomey Riggs, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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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.
1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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