Zelda Skinner

Brief Life History of Zelda

When Zelda Skinner was born on 11 July 1909, in Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States, her father, George Jensen Skinner, was 28 and her mother, Aliza Rox Zina Young, was 25. She married Duard Hugh Dixon on 30 September 1929, in Denver, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Soda Springs, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1910. She died on 2 May 1935, in Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Duard Hugh Dixon
1904–1982
Zelda Skinner
1909–1935
Marriage: 30 September 1929
Maurice Durad Dixon
1930–2006
Carole Louise Dixon
1933–1991
Zelda Al Jean Dixon
1935–1988

Sources (15)

  • Zelda Skinner in household of George J Skinner, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Zelda Skinner, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006"
  • Zelda Skinner Dixon, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1910 · The BSA is Made

Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.

1910 · The Mann Act

This Act makes engaging in transport of any woman for any immoral purpose, prostitution, illegal. Its primary intent was to address prostitution, immorality, and human trafficking, particularly where trafficking was for the purposes of prostitution.

1917

U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for someone who stripped the hide from animals to be used in the production of fur garments, or to be tanned for leather, from Middle English skinner ‘skinner’, an agent derivative of Middle English skin(n) ‘hide, pelt’ (Old Norse skinn).

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

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