Oscar James Dowd (1919 - 2000)

Oscar's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Dowd family tree.

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Oscar's Parents

James Clayborn Dowd

Fannie Lee (Burchett) Dowd

Iverson Dowd Thurman Claben Dowd Oscar James Dowd

Dora Iona (Dowd) White Seyborn E Dowd Edith Lorene (Dowd) Cagle

Parents:

James Clayborn Dowd

Aug 16, 1876 - January 1956

Fannie Lee (Burchett) Dowd

Mar 22, 1892 - Jan 9, 1929

Siblings:

Dora Iona (Dowd) White

Jul 2, 1917 - Mar 12, 2002

Iverson Dowd

Dec 21, 1923 - Mar 4, 2004

Seyborn E Dowd

Nov 7, 1909 - Jul 15, 1965

Thurman Claben Dowd

Aug 22, 1911 - May 8, 1988

Edith Lorene (Dowd) Cagle

Aug 24, 1914 - 2006

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Oscar James Dowd & Ruth Ardella (Gravley) Morgan

1966 - April 16, 1988
Cause of Separation: Death

Oscar James Dowd

Ruth Ardella (Gravley) Morgan

Spouse:

Ruth Ardella (Gravley) Morgan

Sep 4, 1912 - Apr 16, 1988

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Ruth and Oscar James Dowd

Added: May 13, 2018

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Patricia Walling

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Oscar was my step grandfather and was a very sweet gentle caring man. He had a very southern drawl and when we would leave he would say yall come back now. In the last year of his wife Ruth's life he would go to the nursing home 2 times a day to try to get her to eat. Such a devoted husband he would do anything for her.

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In 1919, in the year that Oscar James Dowd was born, in June, the Treaty of Versailles - officially ending World War I - was signed. The European Allies demanded "compensation by Germany for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allies and their property by the aggression of Germany by land, by sea and from the air.” The requirement of compensation is seen by most as the reason for the collapse of the German economy and gave rise to the rule of Hitler.

In 1929, when he was just 10 years old, on March 4th, Herbert Hoover became the 31st President of the United States. Early in his presidency, the October stock market crash - "Black Tuesday" - occurred, which lead to the Great Depression. None of his economic policies were able to make a dent in the Depression. This lead to one term and the election of Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt winning the 1933 election in a landslide.

In 1954, at the age of 35 years old, Oscar was alive when on May 17th, the Supreme Court released a decision on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The ruling stated that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional thus paving the way for integration in schools.

In 1964, when he was 45 years old, on June 11th, activist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa for conspiring to overthrow the state (because of his numerous anti-apartheid activities). He served 27 years in prison.

In 1991, by the time he was 72 years old, on December 25th, the Soviet Union flag was lowered and replaced by the Russian tricolor flag. It was the end of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union and Boris Yeltsin became President of the Russian Republic.