Brief Life History of Ruth Afton
When Ruth Afton Payne was born on 19 December 1911, in Weiser, Washington, Idaho, United States, her father, Henry Phillips Payne, was 31 and her mother, Flora Charlotta Thompson, was 30. She married Kenneth Earl Jolley on 20 February 1931, in Cassia, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Heyburn, Minidoka, Idaho, United States in 1930 and Emerson Election Precinct, Minidoka, Idaho, United States for about 5 years. She died on 26 February 1956, in Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States.
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Sources (16)
- Afton Jolley in entry for Earl Kenneth Jolley, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Ruth Afton Payne Jolley in household of Earl Kenneth Jolley, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Afton Payne, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
Spouse and Children
1906–1946 Male
1911–1956 Female
Children (2)
1931–2021 Female
1934–2021 Male
Parents and Siblings
1880–1959 Male
1881–1962 Female
Siblings (8)
1905–1983 Male
1906–1982 Female
1908–1928 Male
1909–1968 Male
1911–1956 Female
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World Events (8)
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Age 1
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
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1927
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Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pai(e)n, Pagen (from Latin Paganus), a fairly common personal name among Normans. It derived from a word that originally meant ‘villager, rustic’, later ‘heathen’, but it had doubtless lost these connotations in its use as a late medieval personal name. This name has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century.
History: Thomas Payne, who was a freeman of Plymouth Colony in 1639, was the founder of a large American family, which included Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. See also Paine .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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