Brief Life History of Ida May
When Ida May Burson was born on 16 August 1863, in Monroe Township, Pulaski, Indiana, United States, her father, George E Burson, was 52 and her mother, Mary E. Pitzer, was 44. She married George William Shafer on 21 September 1878, in Falls City, Richardson, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Aspinwall Election Precinct, Nemaha, Nebraska, United States in 1885 and Strathcona, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1906. She died on 25 September 1906, in Lacombe, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 43, and was buried in Red Deer, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Canada.
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- Ida Shafer in household of George Shafer, "Nebraska, State Census, 1885"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ida May Burson - Government record: Marriage record or certificate: birth-name: Ida May Burson
- Ida May Burson, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
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World Events (8)
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1867
Nebraska is the 37th state.
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.
Name Meaning
English: possibly a variant of Barson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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