Brief Life History of Florence Mabel
When Florence Mabel Gore was born on 12 October 1896, in Blue Springs, Jackson, Missouri, United States, her father, Martin Gore, was 40 and her mother, Elizabeth Jane Porter, was 40. She married Richard Franklin Lowe on 1 May 1920, in Blue Springs, Jackson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Sni-A-Bar Township, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1930. She died in January 1975, in Blue Springs, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Blue Springs, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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Sources (8)
- Florence M Lowe, "United States Census, 1930"
- Florence Mabel Gore Lowe, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mabel Lowe in entry for Mrs Norma Lee Lowe Simcosky, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English gor(e), gar(e) ‘triangular piece of land’ (Old English gāra, a derivative of gār ‘spear’, with reference to the triangular shape of a spearhead), a topographic name for someone living by a triangular field, or a habitational name from any of various places, for example Gore Court in Tunstall (Kent) and Gore Farm in Hannington (Wiltshire), named from this word.
French: from Old French gore ‘sow’ (a word of allegedly imitative origin, reflecting the grunting of the animal), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a swineherd or as an unflattering nickname.
French: probably also from a pet form of a vernacular form of the personal name Grégoire (see Gregory ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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