Martha Maude Bowring

Brief Life History of Martha Maude

When Martha Maude Bowring was born on 6 February 1877, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Wallace Crocker Bowring, was 23 and her mother, Elizabeth Newman, was 26. She married Thomas Lambert Woodbury on 16 November 1898, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 30 years. She died on 27 June 1946, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Lambert Woodbury
1873–1942
Martha Maude Bowring
1877–1946
Marriage: 16 November 1898
Maude Bowring Woodbury
1900–1983
Annie Camille Bowring Woodbury
1903–1995
Elizabeth Bowring Woodbury
1905–1920
Thomas Reinhold Bowring Woodbury
1908–1972
Mary Alice Bowring Woodbury
1910–1992

Sources (67)

  • Martha Maud B. Woodbury in household of Thomas L. Woodbury, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Martha Maude Bowring - Church record: birth: 6 February 1877; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  • MARRIAGE: Maude M. Bowring and Thomas L Woodbury, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

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.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name from Middle English bouring (Old English būring), a derivative of Old English būr ‘bower, cottage, hall’, probably denoting a cottager or perhaps one who worked at a hall (see Bower ).

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

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