Brief Life History of Isabel Ruth
When Isabel Ruth Owens was born on 23 November 1896, in Xenia, Greene, Ohio, United States, her father, Harley Wilbur Owens, was 38 and her mother, Anna Virginia Lee Saylor, was 35. She married Audrian Leslie Gaddis on 19 October 1921, in Greene, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States in 1930. She died on 12 May 1944, in Decatur, DeKalb, Georgia, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Xenia, Greene, Ohio, United States.
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Sources (15)
- Isabel Owens in household of Harley W Owens, "United States Census, 1920"
- Owens, Marguerite A. Greene, Co. Ohio Birth Record 1894
- Isabelle Ruth Owens, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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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.
1906 · The Atlanta Race Riot
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22 through September 24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by pre-existing racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next few days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
Welsh: variant of Owen , with post-medieval excrescent English -s.
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form by bearers of the Gaelic surname Mac Eoghain (see McEwen ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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