Brief Life History of Ona May
When Ona May Young was born on 10 April 1878, in Nebraska, United States, her father, David Andrew Young, was 27 and her mother, Australia Anna Elizabeth Mann, was 20. She married Seeley Leroy Lawton on 6 October 1908. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Murray, Cass, Nebraska, United States in 1920 and Rock Bluff, Cass, Nebraska, United States in 1930. She died on 28 December 1948, in Cass, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 70.
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- Ona Lawton, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ona May Young Lawton - birth-name: Ona May Young Lawton
- Ono May Lawton, "Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987"
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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.
1884
Historical Boundaries: 1884: Cass, 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
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong), used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an English equivalent of the Gaelic nickname Og ‘young’; see Ogg . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘young’ or similar, notably German Jung , Dutch Jong and De Jong , and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse .
Americanized form of Swedish Ljung: topographic or an ornamental name from ljung ‘(field of) heather’, or a habitational name from a placename containing this word, e.g. Ljungby.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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