Brief Life History of Edna Maurine
When Edna Maurine Young was born on 23 May 1918, in Garfield, Utah, United States, her father, James Elzy Young, was 34 and her mother, Edna May Tanner, was 26. She married James Glavis Morrison on 26 September 1983, in Davis, Utah, United States. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 2 November 2005, in Riverton, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Cottonwood Heights, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- E Maurine Young in household of Joseph W Tanner, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Edna Maurine Young - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Edna Maurine Young
- Edna Maurine Young, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1921 · One of The Oldest Coasters in the World
Utah is home to one of the oldest coasters in the world that is still operational. The Roller Coaster, at Lagoon Amusement park, is listed number 5.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong), used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an English equivalent of the Gaelic nickname Og ‘young’; see Ogg . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘young’ or similar, notably German Jung , Dutch Jong and De Jong , and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse .
Americanized form of Swedish Ljung: topographic or an ornamental name from ljung ‘(field of) heather’, or a habitational name from a placename containing this word, e.g. Ljungby.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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