Lizzie Myrtle Brink

Brief Life History of Lizzie Myrtle

When Lizzie Myrtle Brink was born on 25 March 1872, in Iowa, United States, her father, Thomas Garner Brink, was 38 and her mother, Mary Roxanne Bolon, was 35. She married William Green McClure on 2 May 1888, in Mondovi, Lincoln, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Lincoln Township, Atchison, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 18 July 1900, in Mondovi, Lincoln, Washington, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Pleasant View Cemetery, Mondovi, Lincoln, Washington, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Green McClure
1861–1945
Lizzie Myrtle Brink
1872–1900
Marriage: 2 May 1888
Vernet Claude McClure
1889–1968
Roscoe Mervyn McClure
1890–1960
Trissie Adelia McClure
1892–1968
Bertha Earle McClure
1895–1985

Sources (17)

  • Lizzie M Brink in household of Thomas J Brink, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Washington, Births, 1883-1935
  • Washington, Marriage Records, 1865-2004

World Events (8)

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

1875 · A New Civil Rights Act

During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

Name Meaning

North German; Danish and Swedish (of German origin): topographic name for someone who lived by a pasture or green, from Middle Low German brinc ‘hill, edge, slope, grazing land’, especially a raised meadow in low-lying marshland. Swedish name is ornamental.

Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by the brink, which is in the central and east Netherlands the name of the common area in the centre of the village, the village square. Compare Vandenbrink .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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