Brief Life History of Woffard Austin
When Woffard Austin Stowe was born on 30 September 1917, in Georgia, United States, his father, Thomas Lee Stowe, was 38 and his mother, Hulda Jane King, was 35. He lived in District 267, Stephens, Georgia, United States for about 20 years and Laurens, South Carolina, United States in 2005. He died on 5 June 2005, at the age of 87, and was buried in Toccoa, Stephens, Georgia, United States.
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- Winford Stone in household of Tom Stone, "United States Census, 1920"
- Wofford Austin Stowe, "Georgia World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- Wofford Austin Stowe, "Find A Grave Index"
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1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Stow or Stowe, all named with Old English stow ‘place, holy place, assembly place’ (a word akin to stoc; see Stoke ). In a few cases the surname appears to be topographic, denoting someone who lived by a church or monastery, from Middle English stow(e) ‘holy place, church, monastery’. Places in Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and Staffordshire having this origin use the spelling Stowe, but the spelling difference cannot be relied on as an indication of locality of origin. The final -e in part represents a trace of the Old English dative inflection.
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 司徒, see Situ .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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