Brief Life History of Eldon Preston
When Eldon Preston Melton was born on 26 April 1912, in Osborne, Osborne, Kansas, United States, his father, John Rutherford Melton, was 35 and his mother, Bernice Mirch Lockhart, was 32. He married June Oral Chaffin on 15 November 1933. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Rose Election Precinct, Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1940 and Rose, Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1950. He died on 15 November 1950, in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.
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- Eldon P Melton, "United States 1950 Census"
- Eldon Melton, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
- Eldon Preston Melton, "Idaho, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
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World Events (8)
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
1913 · The Seventeenth Amendment
The Seventeenth Amendment allows the people of each state to elect their own Senators instead of having the state legislature assign them.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from any of various places, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Yorkshire, all of which have the same origin as Middleton , with Old English middel replaced by its Old Norse equivalent methal after the Scandinavian settlement of northern and eastern England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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