Lovina E. Post

Brief Life History of Lovina E.

When Lovina E. Post was born on 15 March 1844, in Ohio, United States, her father, John Post, was 48 and her mother, Elizabeth Boss, was 44. She married Theodore Sheldon Harris on 26 March 1862, in Delaware, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Monona, Iowa, United States in 1895 and Grant Township, Monona, Iowa, United States in 1910. She died on 12 May 1910, in Grant, Montgomery, Iowa, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Anthon, Woodbury, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

Theodore Sheldon Harris
1839–1916
Lovina E. Post
1844–1910
Marriage: 26 March 1862
Octava Rosetta Harris
1867–1913
Oren Ira Harris
1868–1941
Margaret Luella Harris
1873–1930
Edward T Harris
1876–1924
Sadie Adella Harris
1882–1949

Sources (27)

  • Lovina Harris in household of Theodore A Harris, "Iowa State Census, 1885"
  • Lovina E. Post, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
  • Lovina Elmer Harris, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1858

Historical Boundaries: 1858: Montgomery, Iowa, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

North German, Danish, and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived near a post or pole (Middle Low German, Middle Dutch post, from Latin postis), presumably one of some significance, e.g. serving as a landmark or boundary, or a habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany called Post, probably from this word.

North German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a messenger or mailman, from post ‘mail’.

Probably also an altered form of German Pfost .

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

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