Brief Life History of Susie Cecilia
When Susie Cecilia Davis was born on 27 May 1917, in North Powder, Union, Oregon, United States, her father, Edward Alvin Davis, was 33 and her mother, Henrietta "Hattie" Clementine Meyers, was 17. She married Clifford Owen Gorham on 30 June 1935, in North Powder, Union, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Powder Election Precinct, Union, Oregon, United States in 1940 and Wallowa, Wallowa, Oregon, United States in 1950. She died on 11 May 2003, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Wallowa, Wallowa, Oregon, United States.
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- Susie C Gorham, "United States 1950 Census"
- Susie Cecilia Davis, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Births, 1842-1917"
- Susie Davis, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
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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.
1918 · Spanish Flu Kills Thousands in Oregon
The “Spanish Flu,” or the influenza pandemic, claimed the lives of over 50 million across the globe, 450,000 across the U.S., and thousands in Oregon during the years 1918 to 1919.
1940
Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .
History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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