Lillian Anderson

Brief Life History of Lillian

When Lillian Anderson was born on 5 November 1922, in Midvale, Washington, Idaho, United States, her father, Rufus William Anderson, was 36 and her mother, Ida May Bergman, was 28. She married Othniel Evans on 17 February 1941. She lived in Mount Shasta, Siskiyou, California, United States in 1935 and Election Precinct 9 Midvale, Washington, Idaho, United States in 1940. She died on 16 September 2007, in Meridian, Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Midvale, Washington, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Othniel Evans
1915–1970
Lillian Anderson
1922–2007
Marriage: 17 February 1941

Sources (4)

  • Lillian Anderson in household of George W Towell, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Ida Lillian Anderson, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1962"
  • Lillian Ida Fuhrman, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

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World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

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

1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary

Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963. 

1945 · Peace in a Post War World

The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.

Name Meaning

Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.

German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.

Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.

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

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