Brief Life History of Opal Mae
When Opal Mae Adams was born on 22 February 1915, in Waldron, Scott, Arkansas, United States, her father, Cornelius Adams, was 27 and her mother, Phoebe Annie Weston, was 23. She married Daniel Rae Bowlin on 1 December 1933, in Florence, Pinal, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Coachella Judicial Township, Riverside, California, United States in 1940 and Coachella, Riverside, California, United States in 2006. She died on 28 December 2005, in Loma Linda, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Coachella Valley Public Cemetery, Coachella, Riverside, California, United States.
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- Opal M Bowlin in household of Dan R Bowlin, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Opal Mae Adams - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Opal Mae Adams
- Opal May Adams, "Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964"
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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.
1922 · The First Radio Station WOK Begins Broadcasting
In 1922, Harvey C. Couch Sr. started WOK the first radio station in Arkansas. After a trip to Pittsburgh and the KDKA radio he came up with the idea for Workers of Killowatts (WOK). WOK had no commercials which was nice for the listeners.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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