Brief Life History of Metta Mabel
When Metta Mabel Boughton was born on 2 January 1904, in Neosho Falls, Woodson, Kansas, United States, her father, Charles Boughton, was 54 and her mother, Mary Ella McCullough, was 39. She lived in Everett Township, Woodson, Kansas, United States for about 10 years and Yates Center, Yates Center, Woodson, Kansas, United States in 1940. She died on 15 February 1998, in Yates Center, Woodson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Yates Center Cemetery, Yates Center, Woodson, Kansas, United States.
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Sources (8)
- Meta Boughton, "Kansas State Census, 1905"
- Metta Mabel Boughton, "Find A Grave Index"
- Meta M Boughton in household of Mary E Boughton, "United States Census, 1940"
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World Events (8)
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
1927 · Kansas Adopts a Flag
The flag of the State of Kansas was adopted on September 24, 1927. The flag was designed by Hazel Avery in 1925.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so named. Those in Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, and Nottinghamshire are named from Old English bucc ‘goat’ or the Old English byname Bucca with the same meaning (see Buck 1) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’; those in Cheshire and Kent are named with Old English bōc ‘beech’ + tūn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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