Doddridge County Roots


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Rowena L. BROADWATER

Rowena L. BROADWATER

Female 1902 - 2001  (98 years)


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  • Name Rowena L. BROADWATER
    Birth 24 Feb 1902  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Female
    Census 1930  Southwest District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence New Braunfels, Comal Co, TX Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Residence 1970  Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Death 2 Feb 2001  [2] 
    Burial Masonic Memorial Park Cemetery, Crystal Lake (West Union), WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Notes 
    • Name Origins, by Julie Helen Otto, Genealogist
      "ROWENA (f): In his American Given Names (1979), George R. Stewart writes, [Rowena] occurs in the twelfth-century writings of Geoffrey of Monmouth. Since those writings are essentially fictional, the name may be considered his coinage . . . Sir Walter Scott used Rowena for the Anglo-Saxon heroine of Ivanhoe [1819]. From that very popular novel it was adopted for real women, and thus it enjoyed some use in the middle nineteenth century. It is a good example of what we may call a ‘Romantic’ name." According to the Augusta, Maine, Vital Records to 1892, Rowena A. Tobey of Vassalboro and John F. Saben were married on Sept. 5, 1872. In the 1850 census, 689 women and girls named Rowena were listed; in the 1940 census, 7,811 were enumerated with the name."
    Person ID I44260  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 30 Aug 2011

    Father Charles Pierce BROADWATER,   b. 24 Jun 1852, Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Nov 1942, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years)
    Mother Sarah Margurite "Maggie" LOWTHER,   b. 1862   d. 5 Dec 1928, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
    Family ID F13156  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 A. H. CARPENTER,   b. CA 1894, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location
    Marriage 24 Dec 1919  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Children 
     1. Helen A. CARPENTER,   b. CA 1921, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F19312  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Howard Isaac DILLY,   b. 30 Aug 1899   d. 5 Dec 1982, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)  [5, 6]
    Marriage 17 Jul 1925  [7] 
    Children 
    +1. Charles Robert "Bob" DILLY,   b. 4 Oct 1925, Middleport, Meigs Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jul 2011, New Braunfels, Comal Co, TX Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
    Family ID F17897  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1774] Doddridge County WV Marriages 1845-1937, (Wes Cochran, 156 Gihon Meadows, Apt 150, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Jan 1993)).

    2. [S15] Social Security Death Index.

    3. [S1594] Obituary of brother.

    4. [S1793] West Union WV Cemeteries (Doddridge County), (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (July 1990)).

    5. [S1372] Obituary of wife's brother.

    6. [S1570] Obituary of son.

    7. [S110] Obituary of husband.