Alluvine (Satchel) McGowan (1888 - 1978)

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Biography

Alluvine was born in 1888. She and several members of her family were members of the Peoples Temple in Los Angeles, California, and eventually moved to Jonestown, Guyana. She died there on 18 November 1978 when Jim Jones ordered the "revolutionary suicide" of Peoples Temple members. One Find A Grave profile is for the Jonestown Memorial in Oakland, California.^[1] She was buried at Angeles Abbey Memorial Park in Compton, California.^{[2] [3]}

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31133957/alluvine-mcgowan: accessed 13 December 2022), memorial page for Alluvine McGowan (13 Mar 1888–18 Nov 1978), Find A Grave: Memorial #31133957, citing Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA; Maintained by Arlene Michelle (contributor 49266525).
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/218032079/alluvine-mcgowan: accessed 13 December 2022), memorial page for Alluvine Satchell McGowan (13 Mar 1888–18 Nov 1978), Find A Grave: Memorial #218032079, citing Angeles Abbey Memorial Park, Compton, Los Angeles County, California, USA; Maintained by J B (contributor 49593679).
3. ↑ Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. (2018). "Where were the people who died in Guyana buried?" from Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple. https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=87578

• "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV14-NH4C : 23 February 2021), Raymond Mcgowen and Alivine Satchel, 01 Sep 1910; citing Marriage, citing McLennan, Texas, United States, Texas State Library, Archives Division, and various Texas county clerks; FHL microfilm 987,564.
• Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. (2018). Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple. https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/
  • Death record
  • Leomy Wright Family Tree
• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH19-9YH : accessed 13 December 2022), Alluvine McGowan in household of Raymon McGowan, McLennan, Texas, United States; citing , sheet , line , family , NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll ; FHL microfilm .
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HXLW-V2M : accessed 13 December 2022), Allievine Mc Gowan in household of Raymond Mc Gowan, Precinct 8, McLennan, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 59, sheet 1A, line 11, family 3, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2374; FHL microfilm 2,342,108.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4S7-V1R : 10 January 2021), Allsinine McGowan in household of Raymond McGowan, Justice Precinct 8, McLennan, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 155-86, sheet 2A, line 21, family 20, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4101.
• "United States Census, 1950." https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XPM-XPHT