Brief Life History of Ruby Agnes
When Ruby Agnes Willis was born on 15 December 1914, in Paxton, Ford, Illinois, United States, her father, James Stuart Willis, was 51 and her mother, Daisy Rose Olive Hunter, was 40. She lived in Ludlow, Champaign, Illinois, United States in 1920. She died on 20 June 1926, in Libertyville, Lake, Illinois, United States, at the age of 11, and was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Libertyville Township, Lake, Illinois, United States.
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Sources (3)
- Ruby Willis in household of James Willis, "United States Census, 1920"
- Rubby Willis, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Ruby Willis, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (7)
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
variant of Will with genitival -s. This surname represents a retention of the second syllable, introduced by the addition of the Middle English genitival suffix -es, which would have been pronounced in the Middle English period. Compare Wills . In some cases the name is a variant of Willey , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
variant of Willows .
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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