Owen Hill Lawrence

Brief Life History of Owen Hill

When Owen Hill Lawrence was born on 6 March 1879, in Melbourne, Izard, Arkansas, United States, his father, James Daniel Lawrence, was 31 and his mother, Ruth Amanda Dowdle, was 21. He married Ellie Wee Smith on 1 August 1907, in Izard, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Izard, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years and Mill Creek Township, Izard, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 18 February 1969, at the age of 89, and was buried in Melbourne, Izard, Arkansas, United States.

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Owen Hill Lawrence
1879–1969
Ellie Wee Smith
1885–1966
Marriage: 1 August 1907
Josie Elizabeth Lawrence
1908–1999

Sources (13)

  • Owen H Lawrence, "United States 1950 Census"
  • O H Lawrence, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
  • Owen Lawrence, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

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.

1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded

The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

Name Meaning

English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Lorens, Laurence, from Latin Laurentius ‘man from Laurentum’, a place in Italy probably named from its laurels or bay trees. The name was borne by a Christian saint who was martyred at Rome in the 3rd century AD ; he enjoyed a considerable cult throughout Europe, with consequent popularity of the personal name (French Laurent, Italian, Spanish Lorenzo, Catalan Llorenç, Portuguese Lourenço, German Laurenz, Polish Wawrzyniec, etc.). In Britain this is a common name from the 12th century, with pet forms such as Law , Low , Lawrie , Laurie , Larry , Larkin , all of which are represented in surnames. There was also a feminine form Laurencia which may have given rise to the English surname. The surname is also borne by Jews among whom it is presumably an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Ashkenazic surnames. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages, e.g. German Lorenz , and also their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Slovenian Lavrenčič and Lovrenčič (patronymics from Lavrencij and Lovrenc, equivalents of Lawrence), Polish Wawrzyniak . Compare Larrance , Laurence , Lawerence , Lieurance , and Lowrance .

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

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