Annette "Toye" Carr

Brief Life History of Annette "Toye"

When Annette "Toye" Carr was born on 15 February 1898, in Randolph, West Virginia, United States, her father, Solomon Saul Carr, was 22 and her mother, Mary Catherine Wolford, was 24. She married Isaac Garfield VanMeter in 1918. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States in 1930 and Cass District, Monongalia, West Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 15 October 1986, in Monongalia, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Beverly Hills Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Isaac Garfield VanMeter
1895–1967
Annette "Toye" Carr
1898–1986
Marriage: 1918
Wilma Agatha Van Meter
1919–1989

Sources (10)

  • Annette Carr, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Toy Carr, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
  • Annette Carr, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome

A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

Name Meaning

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Ó Carra ‘descendant of Carra’, a personal name from the adjective corr ‘pointed’, explained as meaning ‘spear’. As an Ulster surname, Carr was often confused with Scottish Kerr .

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Mac Giolla Chathair, a Donegal name meaning ‘son of Giolla Cathair’ or ‘the servant (i.e. devotee) of Saint Cathar’. Cathar was a priest and bishop, otherwise unknown.

Irish: in Galway, a shortened Anglicized form of Mac Giolla Chéire, see Keary .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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