Gathel Dove Harris

Female6 July 1897–2 March 1976

Brief Life History of Gathel Dove

When Gathel Dove Harris was born on 6 July 1897, in Mill Township, Grant, Indiana, United States, her father, David Elmer Harris, was 25 and her mother, Minnie Bell Cox, was 22. She married Andrew Sherman Hobbs on 24 December 1914, in Grant, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Grant, Indiana, United States in 1935 and Sims Township, Grant, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died on 2 March 1976, in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Marion, Center Township, Grant, Indiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

Andrew Sherman Hobbs
1892–1969
Gathel Dove Harris
1897–1976
Marriage: 24 December 1914
Charline Wyanette Hobbs
1916–2013
Marcia Maxine Hobbs
1919–1950
Andrew Junior Hobbs
1921–1963

Sources (13)

  • Gathel V Harris in household of David Harris, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Gathel D Hobbs, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Gathel Dove Harris in entry for Andrew Hobbs, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    24 December 1914Grant, Indiana, United States

    • Children (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (2)

    World Events (8)

    1898 · War with the Spanish

    Age 1

    After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

    1906 · Gary, Indiana, Is Founded

    Age 9

    The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.

    1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

    Age 21

    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.

    Name Meaning

    English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.

    American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).

    Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.

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

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