Brief Life History of Louada
When Louada Summers was born on 11 June 1874, in Illinois, United States, her father, Benjamin T R Summers, was 27 and her mother, Melvina Summers, was 28. She married Commodore Knapper on 29 September 1907, in Jefferson, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Browning Township, Franklin, Illinois, United States in 1920 and Benton, Franklin, Illinois, United States in 1930. She died on 2 March 1962, at the age of 87, and was buried in Akin, Franklin, Illinois, United States.
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- Lonada Knapper in household of Commodore Knapper, "United States Census, 1910"
- Luada Summers, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Luada Summers Knapper, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1877 · The First Workers Strike
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Summer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: occupational or topographic name for someone who lived or worked at the house of someone named Somer (see Summer ).
Irish (Sligo): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Somacháin ‘descendant of Somachán’, a personal name meaning ‘soft, gentle, innocent’, due to confusion with samhradh ‘summer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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