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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
January 26 » Glenn Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
April 6 » During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
June 22 » Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.
July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
September 18 » Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
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
January 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
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
January 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: David Allen Navorska, "Navorska tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/navorska-tree/I115.php : accessed December 21, 2025), "Alta (Elta) Fern Bowles (1911-1912)".
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