Brief Life History of Oscar Alvin "Dusty"
When Oscar Alvin "Dusty" Rhodes was born on 12 July 1903, in Illinois, United States, his father, Isaac E Rhodes, was 26 and his mother, Nellie May Hansen, was 21. He had at least 1 daughter with Bernice K Schaiper. He lived in Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States for about 20 years. He died on 24 July 1966, in East Peoria, Tazewell, Illinois, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in East Peoria, Tazewell, Illinois, United States.
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- Oscar Rhodes, "United States Census, 1930"
- Oscar Rhodes, "Illinois, Tazewell County, Obituary Card Index from the "Pekin Times", 1914-2007"
- Oscar Rhodes, "Illinois Soldier Burial Places, 1774-1974"
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1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1910 · Boy Scouts of America
When W. D. Boyce was visiting London, he encountered a boy that helped him find his destination. The boy refused the tip that Boyce offered to him and told him that he was just doing his daily good turn. Being inspired, Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America to help teach young men how to have an attitude of service always. Since its foundation, The Boy Scouts of America has become one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States. Around 110 million people have been participants at some time in their life. The BSA was established to help young people make better choices in life and showing selflessness by serving the community.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
English:
either a topographic name for someone who lived by ‘(the) woodland clearings’, plural form of Middle English rode (Old English rod, rodu), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place so named, principally Rhodes in Bury (Lancashire) or possibly from one of the many minor places in Yorkshire similarly named, or Rhodes Minnis (Kent). The Yorkshire name sometimes alternates with the singular form (see Rhode and Rode ). The Rh- spelling was introduced in the 16th and 17th centuries by clerks with a classical education, who associated the name with the Greek island of Rhodes, famous in ancient history and mythology. There is also no connection with modern English road (Old English rād ‘riding’), which was not used to denote a thoroughfare until the 16th century. The surname is particularly common in Yorkshire and Lancashire but occurs with various spellings in smaller numbers widely across England.
variant of Rhode , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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