Annie Elizabeth Prater

Brief Life History of Annie Elizabeth

When Annie Elizabeth Prater was born on 11 November 1882, in Smith, Texas, United States, her father, Johnson Carter Prater, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth Pinkney "Pink" Watkins, was 17. She married John Washington Waits on 19 January 1908, in Cherokee, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Alto, Cherokee, Texas, United States in 1910 and Cherokee, Texas, United States for about 30 years. She died on 16 October 1961, in Rusk, Cherokee, Texas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Alto, Cherokee, Texas, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Washington Waits
1882–
Annie Elizabeth Prater
1882–1961
Marriage: 19 January 1908
Walter S. Waites
1909–1978
Rose B Waits
1914–
Mavis Idell Waits
1918–1984
Delia Mae Waits
1922–1994

Sources (12)

  • Annie E Waits, "United States Census, 1950"
  • Annie Prater, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
  • Annie Elizabeth Waits, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company

Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

Name Meaning

English (southern): nickname from Middle English prater ‘chatterer’.

English (southern): occupational name for a reeve, the chief magistrate or bailiff of a district, from Middle English preto(u)r, borrowed from Latin praetor.

Dutch: occupational name for a warden of meadows or a gamekeeper, from Middle Dutch prater, preter (from Latin pratarius, a derivative of pratum ‘meadow’).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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