Mary Belle Knapp

Brief Life History of Mary Belle

When Mary Belle Knapp was born on 19 February 1891, in Lake Pleasant, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Orlando Lorraine Knapp, was 44 and her mother, LoDema Debora Kent, was 40. She married George Lee Ottaway on 25 February 1914, in Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Union Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930 and Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. She died on 5 June 1986, in Warren, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Lee Ottaway
1890–1982
Mary Belle Knapp
1891–1986
Marriage: 25 February 1914
Ronald Lee Ottaway
1923–1989

Sources (10)

  • Bell M Ottoway in household of George L Ottoway, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Belle Mamie Knapp, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
  • Mary Ottaway, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1905 · The Movie Theater

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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

Name Meaning

German: occupational or status name from the German word Knapp(e), a variant of Knabe ‘young unmarried man’. In the 15th century this spelling acquired the separate, specialized meanings ‘servant, apprentice’, and ‘miner’. This surname is also found elsewhere in central Europe, e.g. in Czechia and Slovakia, where it is more commonly spelled Knap (compare 3 below).

German: in Franconia, a nickname for a dexterous or skillful person, of the same ultimate origin as 1 above.

Germanized or Americanized form of Polish, Czech, Slovak, Rusyn, and Slovenian Knap , a surname of ultimately German origin (see 1 above).

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

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