Brief Life History of Lottie A
When Lottie A Sweet was born in January 1861, in Big Spring, Adams, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Stephen Foster Sweet, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth E. Wilber, was 21. She married Frederick Richards on 25 September 1881, in Wisconsin Dells, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Wisconsin Dells, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States in 1905 and Rice, Kansas, United States in 1920. She died in March 1932, in Lyons, Rice, Kansas, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Lyons, Rice, Kansas, United States.
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Sources (11)
- Lottie Richards in household of Fred Richards, "Wisconsin State Census, 1905"
- Lottie A. Sweet, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
- Lottie A Sweet Richards, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867
Historical Boundaries: 1867: Rice, Kansas, United States
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.
Name Meaning
English (Somerset): from the Middle English personal name Swet(e) (Old English Swēt(a) (male), Swēte (female)), or else a nickname from Middle English swet(e), sweyt ‘sweet; pleasing; beloved; attractive’ (Old English swēte, swōt), from which the personal names derive. Compare Swett .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Suess and French Ledoux ‘the gentle, the sweet’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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