Ethel Lee Crosby

Brief Life History of Ethel Lee

When Ethel Lee Crosby was born on 4 May 1888, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, her father, Charles Simon Crosby, was 39 and her mother, Rufina Augusta Porter, was 33. She married Erval Jackson Newcomer on 17 August 1913, in Santa Clara, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Summitview, Yakima, Washington, United States in 1920 and Yakima, Yakima, Washington, United States for about 10 years. She died on 11 January 1943, in Union Gap, Yakima, Washington, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Terrace Heights Memorial Park, Yakima, Yakima, Washington, United States.

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Family Time Line

Erval Jackson Newcomer
1890–1980
Ethel Lee Crosby
1888–1943
Marriage: 17 August 1913
Barbara Elizabeth Newcomer
1914–2004
Jerold Anne Newcomer
1916–2011
Meriel Newcomer
1919–1997
Erval Jackson Newcomer, Jr.
1924–2005

Sources (21)

  • Ethel Newcomer in household of Erral J Newcomer, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Ethel Crosby - Published information: birth-name: Ethel Crosby
  • Ethel Crosby, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"

World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old Norse kross ‘cross’ + ‘farm, settlement’ in Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmorland, North Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire.

Irish: surname adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Mac an Chrosáin (see McCrossen ).

History: The surname of the Irish family of Crosbie is ultimately derived from providing the chief bards to the O’Mores, Chiefs of Leix: crosán means ‘bard’ or ‘satirist’. Pádraic Mac Crosáin or Mac An Chrosáin took the Anglicized name Patrick Crosbie c. 1583.

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

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