Brief Life History of Elsie May
When Elsie May Farmer was born on 18 May 1893, in Clifton, Franklin, Idaho, United States, her father, Erastus Grenig Farmer, was 31 and her mother, Mary Ellen Holt, was 25. She married Bryan Hunsaker Winward on 26 January 1916, in Logan Utah Temple, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Weston, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1900. She died on 18 May 1980, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Whitney Cemetery, Franklin, Idaho, United States.
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- Elsie F Winward, "United States 1950 Census"
- Elsie M Farmer, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Elsie May Farmer Winward, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"
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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.
1899
Germany annexes Western Samoa, the U.S. takes over eastern Samoa and Britain withdraws its claim to the islands in accordance with treaty between Germany, Britain and the U.S.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Autobiography of Elsie May Farmer
Written by Elsie Farmer, May 12, 1946, and later transcribed by Nani Woods. Clifton Idaho My Father & Mother came to Idaho 55 years ago. Father came up with sheep. Mother came up on the train just …
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