Charles Lloyd Crowdis

Brief Life History of Charles Lloyd

When Charles Lloyd Crowdis was born on 29 May 1889, in Sullivan, Missouri, United States, his father, Robert Edmond Crowdis, was 21 and his mother, Margaret Jane Harris, was 21. He married Nola Esther Elliot about 1905, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Enterprise, Linn, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Duncan Township, Sullivan, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. He died on 7 June 1985, in Chillicothe, Livingston, Missouri, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Schrock Cemetery, Duncan Township, Sullivan, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles Lloyd Crowdis
1889–1985
Nola Esther Elliot
1889–1969
Marriage: about 1905
Helen Josephine Crowdis
1915–2006

Sources (17)

  • Lloyd Crowdis, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Charles L. Crowdis, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • Charles Loyd Crowdis, "United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

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World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1890 · Woman's Suffrage

An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

Name Meaning

From a Germanic word, karl, meaning ‘free man’, akin to Old English ceorl ‘man’. The name, Latin form Carolus, owed its popularity in medieval Europe to the Frankish leader Charlemagne ( ?742–814 ), who in 800 established himself as Holy Roman Emperor. His name (Latin Carolus Magnus) means ‘Charles the Great’. Carolus—or Karl, the German form—was a common name among Frankish leaders, including Charlemagne's grandfather Charles Martel ( 688–741 ). Charles is the French form. The name occurs occasionally in medieval Britain as Karolus or Carolus; it had a certain vogue in West Yorkshire from the 1400s, particularly among gentry families. The form Charles was chosen by Mary Queen of Scots ( 1542–87 ), who had been brought up in France, for her son, Charles James ( 1566–1625 ), who became King James VI of Scotland and, from 1603 , James I of England. His son and grandson both reigned as King Charles , and the name thus became established in the 17th century both in the Stuart royal house and among English and Scottish supporters of the Stuart monarchy. In the 18th century it was to some extent favoured, along with James , by Jacobites, supporters of the exiled Stuarts, opposed to the Hanoverian monarchy, especially in the Highlands of Scotland. In the 19th century the popularity of the name was further enhanced by romanticization of the story of ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’, leader of the 1745 rebellion.

Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.

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