Brief Life History of Zenia Minerva
When Zenia Minerva McElwain was born on 24 February 1892, in Eve, Vernon, Missouri, United States, her father, John William McElwain, was 40 and her mother, Mary Caroline Robinson, was 34. She married John Arthur Stowell on 17 March 1907, in Lansford, Bottineau, North Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Independence, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1940 and Independence, Perkins, South Dakota, United States in 1957. She died on 21 February 1957, in El Dorado Springs, Cedar, Missouri, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Independence, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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- Zenia N Stowell in household of John A Stowell, "United States Census, 1930"
- Zenia M. McElwain Stowell, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mrs Zenia Minerva Stowell, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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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.
1908
Historical Boundaries: 1908: Perkins, South Dakota, United States
1910 · The BSA is Made
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Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Bháin (Irish) or Mac Gille Bháin (Scottish) ‘son of the fair-haired lad’, often translated into English as White or Whyte but otherwise indistinguishable, once Anglicized, from Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Bheathain in 2 below. Compare Kilbane .
Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Bheathain ‘son of the servant (i.e. devotee) of (Saint) Beathan’, a personal name representing a diminutive of beatha ‘life’. Compare McBain .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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