Brief Life History of Edith Della
When Edith Della Sawtell was born on 13 October 1893, in Kansas, United States, her father, Zephaniah Sawtell, was 53 and her mother, Eliza Ann Hays, was 45. She married Emmett Lee Sprague on 22 November 1917, in Oswego, Labette, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Montana, Labette, Kansas, United States for about 10 years and Montana Township, Labette, Kansas, United States in 1950. She died on 13 March 1985, in Oswego, Labette, Kansas, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Montana Cemetery, Montana, Labette, Kansas, United States.
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- Edith Sprague, "United States Census, 1920"
- Edith Sprague, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Edith Della Sawtell Sprague in entry for Carroll Lee Sprague, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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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.
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.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
English (Somerset):
perhaps a nickname from an unrecorded adjective or noun related to the Middle English verb saughtelen ‘to make peace, be reconciled’.
alternatively, perhaps an altered form of French Sautel, from a diminutive of saut ‘leap’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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