When Barbara Rose McComb was born on 31 March 1919, in Hildreth, Franklin, Nebraska, United States, her father, Walter McCombs, was 40 and her mother, Georgia Maine Cecil, was 37. She lived in Lincoln Township, Franklin, Nebraska, United States in 1930. She died on 9 July 2007, in Union City, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Chapel of the Chimes, Alameda, California, United States.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thom ‘son of Tom’, a short form of the personal name Thomas . Compare McTavish and McCombie .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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