Estelle Stella Owen

Female2 August 1878–10 May 1953

Brief Life History of Estelle Stella

When Estelle Stella Owen was born on 2 August 1878, in Virginia City, Storey, Nevada, United States, her father, Ira M Owen, was 45 and her mother, Emeretta Victoria Rogers, was 24. She married Ernest Calvin Hamill on 30 August 1898, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 30 years. She died on 10 May 1953, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Adolph Bert Heyman
1877–1957
Estelle Stella Owen
1878–1953
Marriage: 29 February 1916
Dorothy Ruth Heyman
1910–1940
Betty Roberta Heyman
1917–1995

Sources (33)

  • Stella O Heyman in household of Adolph Heyman, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Estelle Owen (Stella) - Church record: birth: 2 August 1878; Virginia City, Storey, Nevada, United States
  • Stella Owen Lobenberg, "Wyoming Marriages, 1869-1923"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    29 February 1916Evanston, Uinta, Wyoming, United States

    • Children (2)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (2)

    World Events (8)

    1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

    Age 3

    Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

    1896 · Utah Becomes a State

    Age 18

    After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.

    1898 · War with the Spanish

    Age 20

    After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

    Name Meaning

    Welsh: from the personal name Owain, from Latin Eugenius (see Eugene ). This Welsh personal name is cognate with Old Irish Eogán, see 2 and 3.

    Scottish and Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eoghain ‘son of Eoghan’. See McEwen .

    Irish: from Ó hEoghain, ‘descendant of Eoghan’. See Ewen .

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

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