Brief Life History of Grace
When Grace Tanner was born on 15 November 1900, in Cokeville, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States, her father, Carlos Brunson Tanner, was 27 and her mother, Lulu Ray Jenkins, was 18. She married Rulon Wood Lowry on 30 November 1926. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Browning, Glacier, Montana, United States in 1935 and Provo Bench Election Precinct, Utah, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 4 June 1987, in Orem, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Grace T Lawry, "United States 1950 Census"
- American Samoa. Birth Records
- Grace Lowry, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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World Events (8)
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
1905
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
English (southern) and Dutch: occupational name for a tanner of skins, Middle English tanner, Middle Dutch taenre. The Middle English form derives from Old English tannere, from Late Latin tannarius, reinforced by Old French taneor, from Late Latin tannator; both Late Latin forms derive from a verb tannare, possibly from a Celtic word for the oak, whose bark was used in the process.
German: topographic name from Middle High German tan ‘woods, pine forest’ for someone who lived near such terrain.
German: habitational name for someone from any of several places called Tanne (in the Harz Mountains, Bavaria, East Prussia, Switzerland) or Tann (Hesse, Bavaria), Thann (Bavaria, Austria, Alsace), Tannen (southern Germany, Switzerland), Thannen (Bavaria).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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In 1924 while my Grandma Grace Tanner was being courted by my Grandpa Rulon Lowry, they lived about 20 miles apart. That made it difficult for them to see each other as often as they liked, but they …
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