Brief Life History of Lettie Elgeva
When Lettie Elgeva Allen was born on 9 January 1891, in Hyrum, Cache, Utah, United States, her father, George Wilford Allen, was 23 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Nielsen, was 20. She married Edgar Lawrence Johnson on 15 November 1922, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in United States in 1949 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 18 years. She died on 17 November 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Hyrum City Cemetery, Hyrum, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Unknown, "United States 1950 Census"
- El.Eva Allen, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Elgeva A. Johnson, "BillionGraves Index"
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World Events (8)
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.
1896 · Utah becomes a state
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
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 and Scottish: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Alain, Alein (Old Breton Alan), from a Celtic personal name of great antiquity and obscurity. In England the personal name is now usually spelled Alan, the surname Allen; in Scotland the surname is more often Allan. From 1139 it was common in Scotland, where the surname also derives from Gaelic Ailéne, Ailín, from ail ‘rock’. The present-day frequency of the surname Allen in England and Ireland is partly accounted for by the popularity of the personal name among Breton followers of William the Conqueror, by whom it was imported first to Britain and then to Ireland. Saint Alan(us) was a 5th-century bishop of Quimper, who was a cult figure in medieval Brittany. Another Saint Al(l)an was a Cornish or Breton saint of the 6th century, to whom a church in Cornwall is dedicated.
English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English femaje personal name Aline (Old French Adaline, Aaline), a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Adal-, especially Adalheidis (see Allis ).
French: variant of Allain , a cognate of 1 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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