Brief Life History of Dorothy Ellen
When Dorothy Ellen Prowse was born on 28 July 1926, in Honey Grove, Fannin, Texas, United States, her father, John Owen Prowse, was 44 and her mother, Vida Joanna Rowton, was 38. She married William Aubrey Jones on 25 February 1946, in Polk, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Fannin, Texas, United States in 1935 and Kemp Township, Bryan, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. She died on 9 April 2007, in Longview, Upshur, Texas, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Sunset Memorial Park, Gilmer, Upshur, Texas, United States.
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- Dorothy Prowse in household of John O Prowse, "United States Census, 1930"
- Dorothy E Prowse, "Texas Marriages, 1966-2010"
- Dorothy Prowse Hunter, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1929 · The Great Depression Arrives
Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.
1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War
The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.
Name Meaning
English (Devon and Cornwall): nickname from Middle English prous, prus, variant forms of prou ‘brave, valiant, proud’ (see Prue ).
English (Devon and Cornwall): ethnic name: from Middle English Prus(se), Pruce ‘Prussia, Prussian’, for someone from that region. Compare Sprouse .
Americanized form of German Prause or Praus , or perhaps of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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