Olive Lavina Coats

Female31 October 1876–24 October 1957

Brief Life History of Olive Lavina

When Olive Lavina Coats was born on 31 October 1876, in Mendocino, Mendocino, California, United States, her father, Sylvester Bradford Coates, was 26 and her mother, Lillian Talbot, was 19. She married Warren Arteberry Rickey in 1917. She lived in Arena Judicial Township, Mendocino, California, United States in 1880. She died on 24 October 1957, in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States, at the age of 80.

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Family Time Line

Warren Arteberry Rickey
1875–1917
Olive Lavina Coats
1876–1957
Marriage: 1917

Sources (4)

  • Olive Rickey in household of Victor Buckman, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Olive L Rickey, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
  • Olive Coats in household of Raymond Coats, "United States Census, 1910"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1917

    • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (3)

    World Events (8)

    1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

    Age 5

    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.

    1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

    Age 15

    Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

    1898 · War with the Spanish

    Age 22

    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 Coates .

    Scottish: variant of Coutts .

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

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