Gertrude M. Boughton

Brief Life History of Gertrude M.

When Gertrude M. Boughton was born on 17 April 1884, in Pavilion, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, her father, George Martin Boughton, was 45 and her mother, Harriet B. Torrey, was 43. She married Howard Anson Pierce on 4 May 1901, in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Township of Pavilion, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States in 1900. She died on 14 March 1923, in Climax, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Boughton Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States.

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Family Time Line

Howard Anson Pierce
1881–1956
Gertrude M. Boughton
1884–1923
Marriage: 4 May 1901
Mabel K. Pierce
1903–1984
Amelia Pierce
1905–1987
Herman Lewis Pierce
1910–1996

Sources (16)

  • Gertrude Bonghton in household of George Bonghton, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Gertrude M Boughton, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
  • Gerturde Boughton, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1887 · The Bagley Memorial Fountain

"The Bagley Memorial Fountain was erected in 1887 with funds from the estate of John Judson Bagley. Bagley's will ordered the construction of the drinking fountain which would provide the people of Detroit ""water cold and pure as the coldest mountain stream."" H.H. Richards was the architect for the Romanesque-style, pink granite, lionhead fountain. It is engraved with the words, ""TESTAMENTARY GIFT FOR THE PEOPLE FROM JOHN JUDSON BAGLEY A.D. MDCCCLXXXVII""."

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.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of numerous places so named. Those in Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, and Nottinghamshire are named from Old English bucc ‘goat’ or the Old English byname Bucca with the same meaning (see Buck 1) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’; those in Cheshire and Kent are named with Old English bōc ‘beech’ + tūn.

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

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