Addie Ophalia Scarborough

Brief Life History of Addie Ophalia

When Addie Ophalia Scarborough was born on 28 February 1885, in Beeville, Bee, Texas, United States, her father, William Thomas Scarborough, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Frances " Betty" Wright, was 29. She married Louis Clinton Overton on 22 September 1906, in Grant, New Mexico, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Sutter, Sutter, California, United States in 1930 and Sutter Judicial Township, Sutter, California, United States in 1940. She died on 8 January 1954, in San Joaquin, Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Sutter Cemetery, Sutter, Sutter, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Louis Clinton Overton
1878–1913
Addie Ophalia Scarborough
1885–1954
Marriage: 22 September 1906
Lois Adeline Overton
1905–1998
Louis Clinton Overton Jr.
1909–1909
Elizabeth Corinne Overton
1911–1993

Sources (29)

  • Addie Plaskett in household of Sylvester Plaskett, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Addie Aphelia Plaskett, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • Addie Ophelia Scarborough Overton, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

Name Meaning

English (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Scarborough (North Yorkshire), from the Old Norse personal name Skarthi + Old Norse borg ‘fortress, fortified town’.

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

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