Brief Life History of Ruth May
When Ruth May Covington was born on 8 May 1894, in Archer, Texas, United States, her father, William Oscar Covington, was 35 and her mother, Henrietta Sumpter, was 36. She married Daniel Arthur Fleer on 24 December 1913, in Archer, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. She lived in Arvada, Jefferson, Colorado, United States in 1930 and Lakeside, Jefferson, Colorado, United States for about 10 years. She died in September 1973, in Golden, Jefferson, Colorado, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Littleton, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States.
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- Ruthie M Fleer, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ruth Covington, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
- Miss Ruth Covington, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
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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.
1907
Historical Boundaries: 1907: Jefferson, Colorado, United States
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
English: habitational name from a place in Huntingdonshire named Covington, from an Old English personal name Cofa + Old English -ing- denoting association + tūn ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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