Brief Life History of Flora Maude
Flora Maude House was born in 1878, in Tennessee, United States as the daughter of James A House. She married Marion F Rothwell on 20 January 1897, in Howell, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in Penn Township, Osborne, Kansas, United States in 1920 and Osborne, Osborne, Kansas, United States for about 20 years. She died in 1963, in Kansas, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Osborne Cemetery, Osborne, Osborne, Kansas, United States.
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- Flora A Rothwell in household of Marion F Rothwell, "United States Census, 1930"
- Miss Flora M Honse, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Flora Maude House Rothwell, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
1881 · Kansas Prohibits Alcoholic Beverages
Kansas became the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment which prohibited all alcoholic beverages on February 19, 1881.
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.
Name Meaning
English: topographic or occupational name for someone employed ‘at the house’, from Middle English hous(e) (Old English hūs), probably a religious house such as a convent. In the Middle Ages the majority of the population lived in cottages or huts rather than houses.
English: variant of Howes .
English: perhaps a topographic name from an unrecorded Middle English huse, a southwest dialect form of Old English hyse ‘place overgrown with (water) plants’, a derivative of Old English hos ‘(water) plant’. In modern English, the name might have been absorbed into Huss or Hose .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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