Juanita Grace Messinger

Brief Life History of Juanita Grace

When Juanita Grace Messinger was born on 14 December 1916, in Idaho, United States, her father, Melvin Howard Messinger, was 37 and her mother, Grace Ariscia Byington, was 25. She died on 23 September 1921, in her hometown, at the age of 4, and was buried in Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Melvin Howard Messinger
1879–1974
Grace Ariscia Byington
1891–1930
Howard Leon Messinger
1911–1997
Thelma Messinger
1912–1912
Lamar W Messinger
1913–1913
Messinger
1913–1913
Darwin C Messinger
1914–1914
Leo Leroy Messinger
1915–1916
Juanita Grace Messinger
1916–1921
Raymond Elwin Messinger
1918–2004
Carlton Theron Messinger
1920–1963
David Clifford Messenger
1928–1929
Darlene Messinger
1930–2024

Sources (2)

  • Wanetta Grace Byington Messenger, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Grace Messinger in entry for Mrs Grace A Messinger, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

World Events (4)

1917

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

1917 · Joining the First World War

Starting with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, which killed 128 American citizens, and many other conflicts with trade from Germany. Congress held a special meeting that resulted in The United States declaring war on Germany. Formally entering the First World War.

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Messenger .

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a brazier, from an agent derivative of Middle High German messinc ‘brass’, German Messing, from Greek mossynoikos (chalkos) ‘Mossynoecan bronze’, named after the people of northeastern Asia Minor who first produced the alloy.

German: habitational name for someone from Mössingen in Baden-Württemberg (Messingen in the local dialect), which is recorded as Masginga in 789, probably from the personal name Masco + ingen, suffix of relationship.

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

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