Brief Life History of Sylvia Elizabeth
When Sylvia Elizabeth Hawley was born on 27 November 1891, in Grove Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Isaac Zimri Hawley, was 25 and her mother, Jerusha Aletha Gunsolley, was 24. She married Frederick Nelson Ballantyne on 24 March 1909, in Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Decatur, Iowa, United States in 1935 and Lotts Creek Township, Ringgold, Iowa, United States in 1940. She died in March 1975, in Iowa, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa, United States.
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- Sylvia Ballantyne in household of Fred Ballantyne, "Iowa State Census, 1925"
- Sylvia E Hawley Hawley, "Iowa, Marriage Records, 1941-1951"
- Sylvia Elizabeth Hawley Ballantyne, "Find A Grave 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.
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.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a lost place called Hawley in Sheffield (Yorkshire). The placename derives from Old Norse haugr ‘hill, burial mound’ + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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