Brief Life History of Margaret Alma
When Margaret Alma Holman was born on 31 August 1890, in Juntura, Malheur, Oregon, United States, her father, David Wynn Holman, was 33 and her mother, Mary Eliza Shackelford, was 28. She married Buell Thurman Hawkins on 30 March 1915, in Ada, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Baker, Oregon, United States in 1910 and White Cross Election Precinct, Ada, Idaho, United States in 1920. She died on 11 March 1946, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States.
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- Maggie A Holman in household of David W Holman, "United States Census, 1900"
- Margaret Alma Holman, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
- Margaret A Hawkins, "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 · Oregon Historical Society
The Oregon Historical Society was founded on December 17, 1898, for the “collection, preservation, exhibition, and publication of material of a historical character, especially that relating to the history of Oregon and of the United States.”
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
English (southern): topographic name for a ‘dweller in a hollow’, from hol + man (Old English holh + mann). Compare Holler and Hole .
Dutch: habitational name for someone from any of several locations named Hol, from Dutch hol ‘hollow’, or from Middle Dutch hole, heule ‘(low) arched bridge, weir’.
Dutch: from a pet form, formed with man ‘man’, of the personal name Holle, from an ancient Germanic compound name with the element hold ‘loyalty’, for instance Holdert, Hollebrand, Holger and Holmer. Compare Holleman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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1900 Census - David Wynn Holman Family
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DH8Q-J5V?cc=1325221&wc=9B7N-799%3A1030550601%2C1030550602%2C1030586301 : 5 August 2014), …
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