Brief Life History of Laura C.
When Laura C. Brake was born in June 1868, in Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Israel Isaac Brake, was 25 and her mother, Louisa Gelwicks, was 21. She married John H. Fauver on 26 June 1890, in Chambersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in St. Thomas District, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. She died in 1922, in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, United States, at the age of 54.
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- Laura Fauver in household of John H Fauver, "United States Census, 1910"
- Laura C. Brake, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- Laura C Brake in household of Israel Brake, "United States Census, 1880"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English (Somerset and Dorset): topographic name for someone who lived by a clump of bushes or by a patch of bracken. Brake ‘thicket’ and brake ‘bracken’ were homonyms in Middle English. The first is from Old English bracu; the second is by folk etymology from northern Middle English braken, -en being taken as a plural ending. After the words had fallen together, their senses also became confused.
North German: habitational name from any of several places so named, notably a town on the Weser River, or a topographic name from Middle Low German brāke mening either ‘breach in the dyke’ or ‘brushwood’.
Dutch (Te Brake, Van de Brake): topographic name from braak ‘wasteland, fallow’, or ‘breached (dyke)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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