Brief Life History of Berdena M
When Berdena M Sweet was born on 2 October 1868, in Rome, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, her father, Preserved H Sweet, was 36 and her mother, Charlotte Elizabeth Benedict, was 25. She married Roy Leon LaMunyan on 25 December 1901, in Steamboat Springs, Routt, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Painesville, Painesville Township, Lake, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died on 21 July 1926, in La Grange, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 57.
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- Berdena La Munyan in household of Roy La Munyan, "United States Census, 1920"
- Verdena M. Lamunyan, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Berdena Latton, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
1885 · The First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
Name Meaning
English (Somerset): from the Middle English personal name Swet(e) (Old English Swēt(a) (male), Swēte (female)), or else a nickname from Middle English swet(e), sweyt ‘sweet; pleasing; beloved; attractive’ (Old English swēte, swōt), from which the personal names derive. Compare Swett .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Suess and French Ledoux ‘the gentle, the sweet’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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