Rella LaDonna Anderson

Brief Life History of Rella LaDonna

When Rella LaDonna Anderson was born on 31 May 1915, in Rexburg, Madison, Idaho, United States, her father, Oliver Calvin Anderson, was 26 and her mother, Isabell Ellsworth, was 25. She married George William Walkingshaw on 2 September 1938, in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States. She lived in Buhl, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. She died on 12 August 2004, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

George William Walkingshaw
1913–1988
Rella LaDonna Anderson
1915–2004
Marriage: 2 September 1938

Sources (42)

  • Rella Anderson in household of Calvin Anderson, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Rella Walkingshaw, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages, 1980-2015"
  • Miss Rella Ladonna Anderson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

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World Events (8)

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.

1921 · One of The Oldest Coasters in the World

Utah is home to one of the oldest coasters in the world that is still operational. The Roller Coaster, at Lagoon Amusement park, is listed number 5.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.

German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.

Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.

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

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