Brief Life History of Grace Marie
When Grace Marie Dourm was born on 31 May 1898, in Paris Township, Stark, Ohio, United States, her father, Ruben W Dourm, was 36 and her mother, Phoebe Betz, was 40. She married Owen Waldo Abel on 9 June 1916, in Stark, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Stark, Ohio, United States in 1920 and Jackson Township, Stark, Ohio, United States for about 20 years. She died on 26 July 1978, in Canton, Stark, Ohio, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Minerva, Paris Township, Stark, Ohio, United States.
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- Grace M Able, "United States 1950 Census"
- Grace Marie Dourm, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Grace Abel, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Turm: topographic name for someone who lived by a tower, or worked in one as a watchman, from Middle High German turm.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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