Brief Life History of Ethel Roberta
When Ethel Roberta Gordon was born on 30 August 1890, in Belmont, Goshen Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States, her father, James M Gordon, was 28 and her mother, Mary Frances Thornborough, was 25. She married Cort Harland Gregg in 1925, in Ohio, United States. She lived in Rush, Indiana, United States in 1935 and Laurel Township, Franklin, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died in August 1979, in Belmont, Ohio, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Belmont Cemetery, Belmont, Goshen Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States.
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- Ethel Gordon in household of James Gordon, "United States Census, 1900"
- Ethel Roberta Gordon, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Ethel R Gordon, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Gordon in Berwickshire, named with Welsh gor ‘spacious’ + din ‘fort’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Gourdon in Saône-et-Loire, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordus + the locative suffix -o, -ōnis.
English (of Norman origin): alternatively, said to be a nickname from a diminutive of Old French gourd ‘heavy, dull, sluggish’ (compare 8 below).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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