Brief Life History of Audrey Maurine
When Audrey Maurine Knox was born on 21 September 1908, in Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa, United States, her father, Peter Cooper Knox, was 31 and her mother, Ada Barfoot, was 26. She married William DeLoss Speer on 14 May 1932, in Dexter, Dallas, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Earlham, Madison, Iowa, United States in 1940 and Spencer, Clay, Iowa, United States in 1950. She died on 5 December 1978, in Horseshoe Bend, Izard, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, De Witt Township, Clinton, Iowa, United States.
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- Audrey Knox in household of P C Knox, "Iowa State Census, 1925"
- Audrey Maurine Knox, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
- Iowa, Marriage Records, 1880-1940
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World Events (8)
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.
1913 · The Completion of the Keokuk Dam
The Keokuk Dam was completed in 1913 and began to power the surrounding area. It was the largest single capacity powerhouse in the world at the time. After World War II, the powerhouse was modernized and all the units were converted in 2002. It remains the largest privately owned and operated dam on the Mississippi River.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English (Northumberland and Durham): from a genitive or plural form of Old English cnocc ‘round-topped hill’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a hilltop, or a habitational name from any of the places in Scotland and northern England named with this element, now spelled Knock, in particular one in Renfrewshire.
Scottish: habitational name from any of the places in Scotland named with Gaelic cnoc ‘hill’, for example Knock in Renfrewshire. It is not possibly to disentangle this from the surname derived from the English etymon mentioned in 1 above.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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