Ruby Pearl Hartley

Brief Life History of Ruby Pearl

When Ruby Pearl Hartley was born on 12 September 1896, in Randolph, Clay, Missouri, United States, her father, Alfred Lee Hartley, was 27 and her mother, Anna Iona Persinger, was 19. She married Otis Dennis Meyer on 5 March 1919, in Daviess, Missouri, United States. She lived in Daviess, Missouri, United States in 1935 and Marion Township, Daviess, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died in 1961, in McFall, Gentry, Missouri, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Mcfall Cemetery, McFall, Gentry, Missouri, United States.

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Otis Dennis Meyer
1879–1965
Ruby Pearl Hartley
1896–1961
Marriage: 5 March 1919

Sources (12)

  • Ruby P Meyer in household of Ortis D Meyer, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Ruby Pearl Hartley Meyers, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Pearl Hartley in entry for O D Meyer, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"

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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.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

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.

Name Meaning

English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name, in northern England mainly from Hartley in Rochdale parish (Lancashire) but also from any of the places called Hartley in Westmorland and the West Yorkshire. In southern England it derives Hartley in Devon, Hampshire, and Kent, and from Hartleigh in Devon. Similar placenames occur in Berkshire, Dorset, and Northumberland, but it is not known if they gave rise to surnames. Most of the placenames derive from Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, though the Westmorland placename comes from Old English heard ‘hard’ + clā ‘claw, tongue of land’, and the Northumberland placename derives from Old English heorot + hlāw ‘mound, hill’.

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArtghaile ‘descendant of Artghal’, a personal name composed of the elements Art ‘bear’ or ‘hero’ + gal ‘valor’.

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

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