Brief Life History of Lura Etta
When Lura Etta Murray was born on 8 March 1876, in Manannah, Meeker, Minnesota, United States, her father, John Henry Murray, was 22 and her mother, Elizabeth Caswell, was 21. She married Charles Loss on 29 July 1896, in Morris, Stevens, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Framnas Township, Stevens, Minnesota, United States in 1895 and Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States for about 40 years. She died on 22 February 1975, in Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 98.
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- Lara E Loss in household of Harold Loss, "United States Census, 1920"
- Lura Wissler, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Laura Etta Murray in entry for Charles Sumner Loss, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"
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World Events (8)
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Moray in northeastern Scotland, which derives from Celtic mori- ‘sea’ + treb- ‘settlement’. The founder of the Scottish house of Murray was a Fleming named Freskin who was granted Strathbrock in West Lothian and Duffus in Moray by David I. The family took its name from the region in the late 12th century.
Irish and Scottish: shortened form of McMurray .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muireadhaigh ‘descendant of Muireadhach’ a personal name meaning ‘mariner’. Occasionally it may be a shortened form of McMurray .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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