Brief Life History of Constance Churchman
When Constance Churchman Bruere was born on 8 October 1890, in Utah, United States, her father, Robert Roacourt Bruere, was 49 and her mother, Margaret Allen Fullenwider, was 31. She married Cyril Clinton Folkrod on 25 June 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Torrance, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died on 11 September 1979, in Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in South Lawn Memorial Cemetery, Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States.
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- Constance Tolkrod, "United States Census, 1920"
- Constance Bruere Folkrod, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Constance Churchman Bruere, "Utah, County Marriages, 1871-1941"
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World Events (8)
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
1891
EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER Lorena Sid Bowman Meachum BIRTH unknown DEATH 17 Oct 1891 BURIAL South Lawn Memorial Cemetery Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA PLOT Section 2; SE; Row 11 MEMORIAL ID 198894647 · View Source
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
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Fernand, Jacques, Marcel.
French (Bruyère): from Old French bruiere ‘heather’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived in a place where heather grew, or a habitational name from one of the places in France (for example in Calvados) named with this word. Compare Labruyere .
Altered form (Bruyère) of French Bruguier: habitational name from (Le) Bruguier, the name of several places in the southeastern part of France, a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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