Violet Abbott
1913–1979 (Age 66)
Olyphant, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States
The Life of Violet
When Violet Abbott was born on 15 December 1913, in Olyphant, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, James R Abbott, was 20 and her mother, Thomasine Eva Jayne, was 20. She died on 12 December 1979, at the age of 65.
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Family Time Line
James R Abbott
1893–1966
Thomasine Eva Jayne
1893–1966
Elizabeth Abbott
1912–1980
Violet Abbott
1913–1979
Parents & Siblings
1893–1966Male
1893–1966Female
siblings
(2)
1912–1980Female
1913–1979Female
World Events (8)
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Age 3
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.
1917
Age 4
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1931
Age 18
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from Middle English abbott ‘abbot’ (Old English abbod) or Old French abet ‘priest’. Both the Old English and the Old French term are derived from Late Latin abbas ‘priest’ (genitive abbatis), from Greek abbas, from Aramaic aba ‘father’. This was an occupational name for someone employed in the household of or on the lands of an abbot, and perhaps also a nickname for a sanctimonious person thought to resemble an abbot. In the U.S. this name is also sometimes a translation of a cognate or equivalent European name, e.g. Italian Abate , Spanish Abad , or German Abt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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