Brief Life History of Alta Marie
When Alta Marie Love was born on 22 July 1903, in Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Lafayette Love, was 37 and her mother, Jeneverie Dunivin, was 35. She lived in Shannon, Missouri, United States in 1935 and Spring Valley Township, Shannon, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 23 April 1970, at the age of 66, and was buried in Summersville Cemetery, Summersville, Texas, Missouri, United States.
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- Alta M Love in household of Tom L Love, "United States Census, 1930"
- Alta Love, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Alta Love in household of Nora Campbell, "United States Census, 1940"
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World Events (8)
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
English: from a Middle English personal name derived from the Old English female name Lufu ‘love’, or the masculine equivalent Lufa. Compare Leaf 2.
English and Scottish: nickname from Anglo-Norman French love ‘she-wolf’ or simply ‘wolf’, the word love being a back-formation from the diminutive forms lovel and lovet ‘little wolf’. See also Low 3, from Anglo-Norman French lou, the more usual form of the word.
Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhionghuin (see McKinnon ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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