When Mamie I West was born on 26 August 1901, in Macon, Tennessee, United States, her father, Erasmus William Asberry West, was 29 and her mother, Corena Grider, was 27. She married Harrison Floyd Davenport on 7 October 1920, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Jackson, Tennessee, United States for about 5 years and Civil District 3, Sumner, Tennessee, United States in 1940. She died on 27 September 1993, in Gallatin, Sumner, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Gallatin Cemetery, Gallatin, Sumner, Tennessee, United States.
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A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
English and German: from Middle English, Middle High German west ‘west’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived to the west of a settlement, or a habitational name for someone who had migrated from further west.
Americanized form of Finnish Vesterinen: from the personal name Vesteri (a short form of Sylvester ) + the surname suffix -nen.
History: This name was brought to North America independently by many bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Thomas West, 12th Baron De La Warre, was captain general of Virginia in 1610–11. The state of DE is named for him. One of the earliest permanent settlers was Francis West (1606–92), who came to Duxbury, MA, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, in or before 1638.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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