Brief Life History of Florence Mae
When Florence Mae West was born on 20 September 1877, in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, her father, John Wesley West, was 21 and her mother, Melissa Ann Pack, was 22. She married Asberry Andrew Neel Postell on 1 March 1893, in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Shoal Creek Township, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States in 1930 and Copperhill, Polk, Tennessee, United States in 1940. She died on 16 October 1969, in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Liberty Community Cemetery, Liberty, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States.
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- Florence Posielle, "United States Census, 1940"
- Florence West Postell, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Florence Mae West Postelle, "Find A Grave Index"
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1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
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.
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 and German: from Middle English, Middle High German west ‘west’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived to the west of a settlement, or a habitational name for someone who had migrated from further west.
Americanized form of Finnish Vesterinen: from the personal name Vesteri (a short form of Sylvester ) + the surname suffix -nen.
History: This name was brought to North America independently by many bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Thomas West, 12th Baron De La Warre, was captain general of Virginia in 1610–11. The state of DE is named for him. One of the earliest permanent settlers was Francis West (1606–92), who came to Duxbury, MA, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, in or before 1638.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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