Brief Life History of Leona Dell
When Leona Dell Lucas was born on 2 September 1876, in Rolling Prairie, Kankakee Township, LaPorte, Indiana, United States, her father, John Parker Hale Lucas, was 26 and her mother, Jane Elizabeth Wilbraham, was 27. She married Wellington Winslow Crannell on 27 January 1907, in Canon City, Fremont, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Colorado City, El Paso, Colorado, United States in 1900 and Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States for about 30 years. She died in 1957, at the age of 81, and was buried in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States.
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- Leona D Lucas in household of John P Lucas, "Iowa State Census, 1885"
- Leona D Lucas, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006"
- Leona L. Crannell, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1881 · Denver becomes State Capitol
On Nov 8 1881, Denver becomes the state capitol, due to an economic boom the city experienced in the 1880s.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch: from the Latin personal name Lucas (Greek Loukas) ‘man from Lucania’. Lucania is a region of southern Italy thought to have been named in ancient times with a word meaning ‘bright’ or ‘shining’ (compare Lucio ). The Christian name owed its enormous popularity throughout Europe in the Middle Ages to Saint Luke the Evangelist, hence the development of this surname and many vernacular derivatives in most of the languages of Europe. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Loukas , Hungarian Lukács (see Lukacs ), German, Dutch, etc. Lukas , Polish Łukasz, Czech and Slovak Lukáš, Czech Lukeš, Slovenian and Croatian Lukež (see Lukes ). Compare Luke .
Scottish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lùcais (see McLucas ).
History: Jacques Lucas dit Lépine from Port-en-Bessin-Huppain in Calvados, France, married Françoise Capel in Trois-Rivières, QC, in 1653.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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