Arzelia Alma Andrews

Brief Life History of Arzelia Alma

When Arzelia Alma Andrews was born on 7 March 1873, in Fort Dodge, Webster, Iowa, United States, her father, Celestius Benjamin Andrews, was 36 and her mother, Mary Henrietta Fuller, was 32. She married Frederick Henry Hancock on 6 September 1893, in Otho, Webster, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Wellington, Sumner, Kansas, United States for about 1 years and Elkhorn Township, Webster, Iowa, United States for about 5 years. She died in 1946, at the age of 73, and was buried in Otho Cemetery, Otho, Webster, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

Oscar Clarence Gruber
1868–1941
Arzelia Alma Andrews
1873–1946
Marriage: 2 March 1904
George Andrew Gruber
1900–1976
Caroline Gruber
1905–
Mildred Augusta Sidebottom
1907–1988
Mable Gruber
1909–1909
Charles Oscar Gruber
1911–1977
Sylvia Arzelia Gruber
1913–1995

Sources (33)

  • Arzelia A Gruber, "Iowa State Census, 1915"
  • Arzelia Alma Andrews, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
  • Angetia Andrews, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"

World Events (8)

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

1884 · There is now a Capital Building

The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.

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: variant of Andrew , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Andrzejewski , Slovenian Andrejčič, Serbian and Croatian Andrić (see Andric ), and Czech Ondráček (see Ondracek ).

Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis or Irish Mac Aindriú, see McAndrew .

History: This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport's company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.

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

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