Phebe Almira Ward

Brief Life History of Phebe Almira

When Phebe Almira Ward was born on 4 March 1882, in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, James Harvey Ward, was 39 and her mother, Elizabeth Alicia Reynolds, was 40. She married Jacob Leslie Kinney on 10 February 1904, in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Brooklyn, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910 and Nicholson, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. She died on 23 July 1967, in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Springville Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Jacob Leslie Kinney
1876–1920
Phebe Almira Ward
1882–1967
Marriage: 10 February 1904
Charlotte Elizabeth Kinney
1906–2005

Sources (10)

  • Phoebe Kinney, "United States, Census, 1920"
  • Myra Ward, "World Miscellaneous Births and Baptisms, 1534-1983"
  • Myra Wood, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"

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World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1886 · Giving Working Men a Union

The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.

1905 · The Movie Theater

The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in. 

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Middle English ward ‘watchman, guard’ (Old English weard, used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).

English: occupational name from Middle English warde ‘armed guard’ (Old English weard ‘watching, guarding’), with the same meaning as 1 above.

Irish: shortened form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.

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

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