Brief Life History of Ruby Irene
When Ruby Irene Hale was born on 21 January 1894, in Election Precinct 14 Jones Mill, Monroe, Alabama, United States, her father, James Monroe Hale, was 35 and her mother, Mary Susan Rose Anna Skipper, was 34. She married William Silas Godwin on 26 December 1910, in Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Toulminville, Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States in 1920 and Prichard, Mobile, Alabama, United States in 1940. She died on 12 November 1978, in Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Bratt, Escambia, Florida, United States.
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- Ruby Godwin, "United States Census, 1940"
- Ruby Hale, "Florida, County Marriages, 1830-1957"
- Ruby Irene Hale Godwin, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1898 · Florida Involvement in Spanish-American War
Florida played a critical role during the Spanish-American War. The port of Tampa saw the arrival of over 30,000 troops; this traffic resulted in the small town experiencing massive growth and becoming a city. Cuban-Americans across the state also helped with raising money and support for the war.
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.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a (usually remote) nook or corner of land, from Old English and Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook, hollow’, or a habitational name from a place so named such as Hale in Cheshire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Holme Hale (Norfolk), Hale Street (Kent), and Haile (Cumberland). In northern England the word often has a specialized meaning, denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, typically one deposited in a bend. See Haugh . In southeastern England it often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from any of several places in England named with this fossilized inflected form, which would originally have been preceded by a preposition, e.g. in the hale or at the hale. This surname is also established in south Wales.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile (see McHale ).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Halle .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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