Hazel Margaret Garrett

Female22 August 1897–11 August 1965

Brief Life History of Hazel Margaret

When Hazel Margaret Garrett was born on 22 August 1897, in What Cheer, Keokuk, Iowa, United States, her father, Clarence Ellsworth Garrett, was 22 and her mother, Nellie Helen Cook, was 20. She married John Earl Swink on 12 February 1916, in Montezuma, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States. She lived in Mobridge, Walworth, South Dakota, United States in 1930 and Pacific, Franklin, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 11 August 1965, in Texas, Missouri, United States, at the age of 67.

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Family Time Line

Claude Mitchell Simmons
1890–1987
Hazel Margaret Garrett
1897–1965
Marriage: 4 May 1918

Sources (12)

  • Hazel M Simmons, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Hazel Garrett, "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935"
  • Hazel Garrett, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    4 May 1918Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States
  • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (3)

    World Events (8)

    1898 · War with the Spanish

    Age 1

    After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

    1906

    Age 9

    Historical Boundaries: 1906: Walworth, South Dakota, United States

    1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

    Age 19

    Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

    Name Meaning

    English (southern): from the Middle English personal name Gerad, a variant of either Gerald or Gerard .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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