Annie "Anna" Elizabeth Flanagan

Brief Life History of Annie "Anna" Elizabeth

When Annie "Anna" Elizabeth Flanagan was born on 1 July 1879, in Smyth, Virginia, United States, her father, Emory Greever Flanagan, was 23 and her mother, Safronia Adeline Pafford, was 18. She married Levi Lawson Howard on 25 December 1895. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Thurston, Nebraska, United States in 1935 and Concord Township, Woodbury, Iowa, United States in 1940. She died on 9 March 1945, in Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Homer, Dakota, Nebraska, United States.

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Family Time Line

Levi Lawson Howard
1875–1956
Annie "Anna" Elizabeth Flanagan
1879–1945
Marriage: 25 December 1895
Lee Mace Howard
1896–1968
Pearl Marinda Howard
1898–1989
Cleo Clarence Howard
1901–1961
Louie Emory Howard
1903–1980
Earl Raymond Howard
1905–1987
Faye Adeline Howard
1907–1996
Cecil Vernon Howard
1908–1909
Roy Levi Howard
1910–1951
Ivan Oscar Howard
1912–1994
Mildred Gertrude Howard
1920–2007

Sources (16)

  • Annie Howard in household of Levi Howard, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Anna Elizabeth Flanagan - Published information: Family genealogies: birth: 1 July 1879; Smyth, Virginia, United States
  • Anna Flannagan, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"

World Events (8)

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.

1889

Historical Boundaries: 1889: Thurston, Nebraska, United States

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

Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Brigid, Aine, Fintan, Aileen, Brian Patrick, Cormac, Fergus, Fidelma, Padraig, Ronan, Seamus.

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Flannagáin ‘descendant of Flannagán’, a personal name derived from a double diminutive of flann ‘scarlet, ruddy’.

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

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