Brief Life History of Alice Rebecca
When Alice Rebecca Decker was born on 22 March 1879, in Morgan Township, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, her father, Perry Addison Decker, was 37 and her mother, Emily Jane Johnston, was 32. She married Adney Perkins Downer on 27 December 1903, in Roscoe, Edmunds, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Ashtabula, Ohio, United States in 1879 and Edmunds, South Dakota, United States in 1920. She died on 14 January 1920, in Roscoe, Edmunds, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Morningside Cemetery, Roscoe, Edmunds, South Dakota, United States.
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- Alice R Downer in household of Adney P Downer, "United States Census, 1920"
- Decker, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Alice Rebecca Decker Downer, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
German: occupational name for a roofer (thatcher, tiler, slater, or shingler) or a carpenter or builder, from an agent derivative of Middle High German decke ‘covering’, a word which was normally used to refer to roofs, but sometimes also to other sorts of covering; modern German Decke still has the twin senses ‘ceiling’ and ‘blanket’.
Dutch: variant of Dekker , cognate with 1 above. Compare De Decker .
English (London): variant of Dicker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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