When Elvira W Towers was born in 1845, in Maryland, United States, her father, Edward Towers, was 32 and her mother, Emily Heiskell Lauck, was 24. She married Edmund Burke on 16 July 1869, in District of Columbia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Washington, District of Columbia, United States in 1870. She died on 8 June 1879, at the age of 34, and was buried in Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
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English:
variant of Tower , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
habitational name for someone from Tours in Indre-et-Loire, northern France, so called from the Gaulish tribal name Turones, of uncertain etymology.
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