Brief Life History of Roy Travis
When Roy Travis Fowler was born on 8 September 1919, in Bonita, Montague, Texas, United States, his father, Emerson Ottis Fowler, was 20 and his mother, Beulah C. Thompson, was 20. He married Alva Mary Rice on 23 June 1979, in Sonoma, California, United States. He lived in Justice Precinct 7, Montague, Texas, United States in 1930. He died on 9 April 2009, in Windsor, Sonoma, California, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Windsor, Sonoma, California, United States.
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- Roy Fowler in household of E O Fowler, "United States Census, 1930"
- Fowler, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
- Roy T Fowler, "California Marriage Index, 1960-1985"
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1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a fowler, a hunter or trapper of wild birds (a common medieval occupation), from Middle English fogheler, fugheler (Old English fugelere, a derivative of fugol ‘bird’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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