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Household of Alta (Elta) Fern Bowles
Notes about Alta (Elta) Fern Bowles
Alta (Elta) Fern Bowles
Sources: Death certificate.
My spelling for her name comes from the death certificate. Details on death certificate were supplied by Lydia Rosetta Hern Hill who was separated from Charles Homer Hill at the time. Great-grandma Lydia was living near Wakeman OH.
She could not digest her food.
Buried either in West Park Cem. or Ridge Road Cem.
Rose Navorska writes, "My sister Elta Fern Bowles Ridge Road Cemetery South of Dennison. She wasn't adopted by Earnest Ebel. Ruth told me today that Mom told her that Elta was 14 months old. She died in Cleveland. She died from malnutrition." - 13 July (Friday) 19__
Rose Navorska writes, "Jessie Hunter is buried in West Park Cemetery 3942 Ridge Road Cleveland 44144 now that is the same place my sister Elda Fern is and my Grandma Ebel. Maybe Grandpa Ebel. (My [step] Dads Mother & Father)" - vi Dec MCMLXXXV - Ashland, OH
Bowles, William Edward, Canadian Army induction papers, 1915 for name. <>
The temperature on November 2, 1911 was between 0.4 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
August 1 » Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
December 14 » Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Day of death October 28, 1912
The temperature on October 28, 1912 was between 9.8 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
Day of burial October 29, 1912
The temperature on October 29, 1912 was between 9.0 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
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