Brief Life History of Laura Virginia
Laura Virginia Savier was born on 28 January 1863, in San Francisco, California, United States. She married Samuel Maxwell Mears on 21 August 1883, in Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Oregon, United States in 1870 and Oakland, Alameda, California, United States in 1894. She died on 9 July 1929, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in River View Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (17)
- N V Jones in household of Henry E Jones, "United States Census, 1880"
- Oregon, Select Births and Christenings, 1868-1929
- Web: Multnomah County, Oregon Marriage Index, 1855-1919
Spouse and Children
1855–1934 Male
1863–1929 Female
Children (5)
1884–1980 Male
1886–1970 Male
1890–1965 Male
1895–1994 Female
1901–2001 Female
Parents and Siblings
1838–1918 Male
1839–1928 Female
Siblings (4)
1863–1929 Female
1866–1963 Female
1870–1951 Female
1873–1968 Female
World Events (8)
1865
Age 2
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
Age 6
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Age 18
Name Meaning
Altered form of Breton Levier ‘helmsman’.
French: occupational name for someone who quarried a kind of flat sandstone called lave (from Latin lapis), which was used for roofing.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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