Emily Dora Bywater

Brief Life History of Emily Dora

When Emily Dora Bywater was born on 21 March 1889, in Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, United States, her father, David Gwillym Bywater, was 47 and her mother, Martha Ann Gledhill, was 28. She married Thorvald Christian Jensen on 1 May 1918, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Glenwood, Sevier, Utah, United States in 1920 and Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 11 December 1984, in Napa, Napa, California, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Glenwood, Sevier, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thorvald Christian Jensen
1888–1925
Emily Dora Bywater
1889–1984
Marriage: 1 May 1918
Thorvald Barry Jensen
1919–1997
David Elden Jensen
1921–2018
Arden L Jensen
1923–1997

Sources (22)

  • Dora Bywater in household of Neils Andersen, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Emily Dora Bywater, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
  • Emily Dora Bywater Jensen, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"

World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

1915 · Dinosaur National Monument

Dinosaur National Monument is a park that contains over 800 paleontological sites and fossils. It was declared a National Monument on October 4, 1915.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name for someone living by a lake or river, from Middle English by ‘by, beside’ + water ‘water’.

Irish: pseudo-translation (due to confusion with sruth ‘stream’) of Gaelic Ó Srutháin ‘descendant of Sruithán’, a personal name from a diminutive of sruith ‘sage, elder’. Bywater is found as the English form of this Gaelic name in County Cork, while in Mayo the usual Anglicization is Ryan .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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