Brief Life History of Ruth Inez
When Ruth Inez Martin was born on 15 September 1892, in Mattoon, Coles, Illinois, United States, her father, Charles David Martin, was 48 and her mother, Sarah Emily Whitney, was 44. She married Henry Dietrich Wiegel on 1 November 1913, in Mattoon, Coles, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Centralia Township, Marion, Illinois, United States for about 5 years and Centralia, Marion, Illinois, United States in 1950. She died on 1 April 1987, in Illinois, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Little Grove Cemetery, Rome Township, Jefferson, Illinois, United States.
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- Ruth Wiegel, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ruth Martin, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934"
- Ruth Inez Martin Wiegel, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1893 · The World's Columbian Exposition
Also known as the Chicago World's Fair, The Exposition was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. The centerpiece of the Fair was a large water pool that represented Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas. The Fair had a profound effect on new architecture designs, sanitation advancement, and the arts. The Fairgrounds were given the nickname the White City due to its lavish paint and materials used to constuct it. Over 27 million people attended the fair during its six-month of operation. Among many of the invetions exhibited there was the first Ferris wheel built to rival the Eiffel Tower in France.
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.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.
English: variant of Marton .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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