Historical records matching Dorothea Downing (Jones)
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About Dorothea Downing (Jones)
Served in France with the American Friends Service Committee, 1918-1919.
At time of her father's death > lived in Salem, Virginia ( see 1957 family photo in 'Media' section)
Attended the 1929 celebration of the Providence Friends Meeting House. She, her father, and her husband are noted in the commemorative booklet published for the occasion.
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~• Dorothea Origin and Meaning
"The name Dorothea is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "gift of God".
Dorothea is a flowing and romantic Victorian-sounding name which was popular in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Dorothea has had a long literary tradition, including as a clever, beautiful character in Don Quixote and the idealistic heroine of George Eliot's Middlemarch.
Worthy namesakes include Dorothea Dix, nineteenth century activist for the mentally ill and Civil War nurse."
As there are no close ancestors of Dorothea Jones who had the given name Dorothea, perghaps she was named for Dorothea Dix. Her mother would have been exposed to her influence from her own years at Wellesley. Dix was widely known "Conversations on Common Things (1824) reached its sixtieth edition by 1869, and was reprinted 60 times and written in the style of a conversation between mother and daughter." ~• wikipedia Dix died on July 17, 1887
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Dorothea Downing (Jones)'s Timeline
| 1893 |
November 23, 1893
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Norristown, Montgomery County, PA, United States
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| 1923 |
July 30, 1923
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Roanoke, Roanoke, VA, United States
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| 1926 |
May 24, 1926
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Salem, Virginia, United States
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