Brief Life History of Iva Etta
When Iva Etta Garland was born on 10 December 1877, in Bar Harbor, Hancock, Maine, United States, her father, James K Garland, was 29 and her mother, Maria Carr Frost, was 26. She married Edward Eugene Cousins on 4 February 1899, in Bar Harbor, Hancock, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Maine, United States in 1877 and Hancock, Maine, United States in 1920. She died in June 1957, in Broward, Florida, United States, at the age of 79.
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- Iva E Cousins, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ivy Ella Garland, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Iva E Garland, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996"
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1878 · St. Mary's Episcopal Church is Built
The Episcopal Diocese of Florida organized a mission church in 1878 to provide a location that could serve seasonal guests. Visitors and residents from Green Cove Springs raised over $1000 to build the church. On March 10, 1879, the Church held its first service. This location is notable because it would eventually be added to U.S. National Register of Historic Places (February 17, 1978).
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English gerlond, ger(e)land, garlond ‘metal chaplet, crown, coronet; wreath’, probably a nickname denoting a habitual wearer of such items, or a metonymic occupational name for a maker of them.
English: perhaps from the Old French personal name Gerland (ancient Germanic Garuland, probably from garw- ‘war-gear; prepared(ness)’ + land ‘land’; the first element of the French name may instead be from a name beginning with gēr ‘spear’).
English: topographic name from Middle English gor(e), gar(e) ‘triangular piece’ + lond ‘land’ (Old English gāra + land, lond), for someone who lived ‘(at the) triangular piece of land’. Compare Garfield .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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