Ruth Ellen Fisher

Brief Life History of Ruth Ellen

When Ruth Ellen Fisher was born on 14 March 1896, in Kansas, United States, her father, Dewalt Fouse Fisher, was 25 and her mother, Phoebe Jane Teaford, was 22. She married Roy Douthett McGrew on 15 September 1915. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 23 February 1983, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 86.

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Family Time Line

Roy Douthett McGrew
1890–1963
Ruth Ellen Fisher
1896–1983
Marriage: 15 September 1915
Harold Leroy McGrew
1916–1944
Zana Helen McGrew
1919–1998
Bernice Irene Mcgrew
1920–2008
Oran D McGrew
1922–1944

Sources (12)

  • Ruth Fisher in household of J C Beam, "Kansas State Census, 1915"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Ruth Fisher - Government record: birth-name: Ruth Fisher
  • Ruth E Fisher, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"

World Events (8)

1898 · War with the Spanish

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 · Great San Francisco Earthquake

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for a fisherman, from Middle English fis(sc)her(e) ‘fisherman’ (Old English fiscere). In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from many other languages, including German Fischer and its Slavic(ized) variant Fišer (see Fiser ), Dutch Visser , Hungarian Halász (see Halasz ), Italian Pescatore , Slovenian Ribič (see Ribic ), and Croatian Ribić or Ribar .

English: in a few cases, possibly a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river, from Middle English fis(sc)hwere, fisshyar ‘fish weir’ (Old English fiscwer, fiscgear), or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Fisher in North Mundham, Sussex.

Irish: translation into English of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See Braden .

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

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