Brief Life History of Nellie
When Nellie Pfitzer was born in 1880, in Missouri, United States, her father, August A Pfitzer, was 35 and her mother, Anna Catherine Utzinger, was 26. She married Rothwell Crews on 21 February 1904, in Audrain, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in Salt River Township, Audrain, Missouri, United States for about 40 years. She died in 1945, in Missouri, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Mexico, Audrain, Missouri, United States.
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Sources (8)
- Nellie Crews, "United States Census, 1940"
- Nellie Pfitzer, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Nellie Pfitzer Crews, "Find a Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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
German: topographic name for someone who lived by a well or a pond, from Middle High German pfütze ‘spring, well’ (from Latin puteus ‘constructed well’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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