Brief Life History of Melvina
When Melvina Graviet was born on 17 September 1881, in Texico, Curry, New Mexico, United States, her father, George Washington Gentry, was 38 and her mother, Susanna Yoakum, was 44. She married Charles Ezra Mower on 27 December 1899, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 1 years. She died on 16 September 1958, in Baldwin Park, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Malirna Cramer in household of Woodrow Wilson Cramer, "Montana, Flathead County, School Census, 1903-1969"
- Melvina Cramer, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Elvina Grariet, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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World Events (8)
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1893
Historical Boundaries 1893: Flathead, Montana, United States
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Gravett .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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