Downs Tree » Ruth Martin (1902-1973)
Personal data Ruth Martin
Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8Sources 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8- She was born on December 6, 1902 in Louisiana.Sources 1, 2, 3, 5, 6
- Resident:
- in the year 1910: Police Jury Ward 7, Livingston, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten.Source 1
- in the year 1920: Police Jury Ward 2, Livingston, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten.Source 2
- in the year 1935: Port Vincent, Livingston, Louisiana.Source 3
- in the year 1940: Police Jury Ward 7, Livingston, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten.Source 3
- in the year 1950: Livingston, Louisiana, USA.Source 6
- (Event) : White.Source 2
- She died on November 21, 1973 in Denham Springs, Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States of America, she was 70 years old.Source 5
- She is buried in Denham Springs, Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States of America.Source 5
- A child of Thomas Robinson Martin and Luvenia Rushing
Household of Ruth Martin
She had a relationship with Lee T. Harris.
Child(ren):
- Robert Lee Harris 1924-1997
- George A Harris 1936-2002
Timeline Ruth Martin
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Sources
- 1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
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- U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday December 6, 1902
- The temperature on December 6, 1902 was between -11.9 °C and -6.4 °C and averaged -9.8 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (78%). Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
- January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
- February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
- April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
- April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
- May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
- August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
Day of death November 21, 1973
- The temperature on November 21, 1973 was between -2.7 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
- February 22 » Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
- March 29 » Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
- May 14 » Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
- October 17 » OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
- October 21 » Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
- November 3 » Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
Same birth/death day
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- 1900 » Agnes Moorehead, American actress († 1974)
- 1901 » Eliot Porter, American photographer and academic († 1990)
- 1903 » Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and manager († 1946)
- 1904 » Ève Curie, French-American journalist and pianist († 2007)
- 1905 » Elizabeth Yates, American journalist and author († 2001)
- 1970 » C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
- 1970 » Newsy Lalonde, Canadian lacrosse and ice hockey player (b. 1887)
- 1973 » Thomas Pelly, American lawyer and politician (b. 1902)
- 1974 » Frank Martin, Swiss-Dutch pianist and composer (b. 1890)
- 1974 » John B. Gambling, American radio host (b. 1897)
- 1975 » Gunnar Gunnarsson, Icelandic author (b. 1889)
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James Downs, "Downs Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/downs-tree/I312392304370.php : accessed December 7, 2025), "Ruth Martin (1902-1973)".