Ida Frances Lewis

Brief Life History of Ida Frances

When Ida Frances Lewis was born on 24 June 1857, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, her father, John Moss Lewis, was 28 and her mother, Martha Jane Crismon, was 25. She married James Harvey Blair on 1 June 1879, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 7 May 1901, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Harvey Blair
1856–1931
Ida Frances Lewis
1857–1901
Marriage: 1 June 1879
Martha Frances Blair
1885–1885

Sources (11)

  • F Blair in household of Jas H Blair, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Ida Lewis, "Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964"
  • Ida Francis Lewis, "BillionGraves Index"

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World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1863

Arizona Territory

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Lewis, Leweis, Lowis, from ancient Germanic (originally West Frankish) Hludwig (itself from hlōd- ‘fame, famous’ + wīg- ‘battle’). This was Latinized as Ludovicus and Chlodovisus, which were gallicized as Clovis or Clouis, French Louis. The name may also appear as Lawis, Laweys, Lawes, by unrounding of the vowel of Lowis on the analogy of the variation between Low and Law as pet forms of Middle English Lourence alias Laurence. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Laws 2 and compare Lawrence .

Welsh: adopted for the Welsh personal name Llywelyn (see Llewellyn ).

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lughaidh ‘son of Lughaidh’. This is one of the most common Old Irish personal names. It is derived from Lugh ‘brightness’, which was the name of a Celtic god.

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

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