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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 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
June 28 » The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
November 5 » After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
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 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
February 25 » Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
April 20 » Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
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
April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
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 20, 2025), "Alta (Elta) Fern Bowles (1911-1912)".
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