Brief Life History of Jacqueline Florence
When Jacqueline Florence Burdick was born on 17 October 1935, in Clayton, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, her father, Lamar Burdick, was 26 and her mother, Eula Mae Barrett, was 26. She married Robert Earl Conwell on 21 March 1954, in Aspen, Lake, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Valley Park, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1935 and Los Angeles Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 11 October 2004, in Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Rangely, Rio Blanco, Colorado, United States.
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- Jacquiline F Berdick, "United States 1950 Census"
- Jacqueline Florence Burdick Conwell, "Find A Grave Index"
- Jackie in entry for Dolores Arletta Burdick Rowley, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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World Events (8)
1936 · Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Built on property donated by the Broadmoor Art Academy, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center was built in April of 1936. This was in the middle of the ""Gret Deperession"" and Alice Bemis Tylor funded the project to help employ laborers who were unemployed.
1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins
The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.
Name Meaning
English (Middlesex): nickname from an unrecorded Middle English burre-dokke ‘burdock’, the name of a prickly plant with burrs and dock-like leaves (usually Arctium lappa), common on waste ground. It may have been given to someone of a prickly temperament or perhaps to someone with a hoarse voice.
Possibly also an Americanized form of Dutch Boerdijk: habitational name from a settlement named Boerdijk, composed of boer ‘peasant, farmer, countryman’ and dijk ‘dike’.
History: Robert Burdick was a freeman of Newport, RI, in 1655.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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