Brief Life History of Bernice Marie
When Bernice Marie Newhouse was born on 14 November 1917, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, Otto Charles Newhouse, was 30 and her mother, Mary Anna Raus, was 26. She married William Ballard DeWitt on 24 August 1942, in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States. She lived in Park Ridge, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1940 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. She died about 10 July 1984, in McCammon, Bannock, Idaho, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States.
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- Bernice M De Witt, "United States 1950 Census"
- Bernise Marie Newhouse, "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1940"
- Idaho, Obituary Collection, 1868-2013
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World Events (8)
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
1919 · The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
During the Chicago race riot, which was raised by racial conflicts throughout Chicago, thirty-eight people died (23 black and 15 white) and over five hundred were injured. It is considered the worst of the approximately 25 riots during the Red Summer and was the worst race riot in Illinois.
1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name for someone who lived at a ‘new house’ (from Middle English newe + hous ‘new house’) or a habitational name from any of various minor places so called, especially perhaps Newhouses in Horton, Yorkshire, near the border with Lancashire.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Scandinavian Nyhus , German and Jewish Neuhaus (topographic or habitational names), or Hungarian Újházi, a habitational name for someone from any of various places called with új ‘new’ + ház ‘house’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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