Brief Life History of Ora Eva
When Ora Eva Keith was born on 30 March 1883, in Bolivar, Polk, Missouri, United States, her father, Rufus Wilson Keith, was 26 and her mother, Nancy Catharine Hayden, was 27. She married Peter Monroe Stewart on 4 December 1905, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States for about 25 years and West Caldwell Election Precinct, Canyon, Idaho, United States in 1940. She died on 25 August 1963, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Canyon Hill Cemetery, Canyon, Idaho, United States.
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- Ora Stewart in household of Pete Stewart, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ora Keith - Government record: Social Security record: birth: 21 April 1884; Missouri, United States
- Ora Keith, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
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World Events (8)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1890
1890: Reconstructed Idaho Information; population 2,311
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Keith in East Lothian. The placename is derived from British Celtic cait- ‘wood’. In the 17th century numerous bearers of this name settled in Ulster.
German: nickname from Middle High German kīt ‘sprout, offspring’.
History: George Keith (c. 1638–1716), born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, came to NJ in or before 1685. In 1689 he settled in Philadelphia, where he became headmaster of the school now called the William Penn Charter School. He came into sharp collision with the Quaker leaders in PA and formed a separatist party known as the Christian Quakers, popularly known as ‘Keithians’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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