Brief Life History of Martha Elnora
When Martha Elnora Gifford was born on 5 November 1893, in Woodville, Bingham, Idaho, United States, her father, George Washington Gifford, was 36 and her mother, Louisa Hale, was 35. She married Evon Wesley Huntsman on 3 June 1910, in Woodville, Bingham, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She immigrated to New Zealand in 1946 and lived in Moreland, Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1900 and Utah, United States for about 5 years. She died on 30 August 1981, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Shelley, Bingham, Idaho, United States.
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- Martha E Huntsman, "United States 1950 Census"
- Martha E Gifford, "Idaho, Birth Index, 1861-1911"
- Martha E Gifford, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
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1894
Historical Boundaries 1894: Bingham, Idaho, United States
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): variant of Giffard, either from the Middle English personal name Gifard, derived from an Old French name of this form deriving from ancient Germanic geb- ‘give, gift’ + hard- ‘hardy, brave’, or perhaps sometimes a nickname from Old French gif(f)ard ‘chubby-cheeked, bloated’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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