Brief Life History of Beatrice Earl
When Beatrice Earl McNeil was born on 27 August 1898, in Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia, United States, her father, Jonathan Patterson McNeil, was 51 and her mother, Sallie Jane Hudson, was 43. She married Earl McClellan Speck on 11 January 1933, in Roanoke, Virginia, United States. She lived in Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States in 1940 and Old Lick, Roanoke, Virginia, United States in 1950. She died on 19 March 1972, in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Roanoke, Virginia, United States.
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- Beatrice M Speck, "United States 1950 Census"
- Beatrice Earl Mcneil, "Virginia, Birth Certificates, 1912-1913"
- Beatrice Earl Mcneil, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"
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1899 · USS Shubrick is Launched
On March 11, 1899 the USS Shubrick was laid, on October 31, 1899 it was launched. The ship was named after William Branford Shubrick. It was sponsored by Miss Caroline Shubrick and commissioned in 1901 with Lt Allen M Cook in command.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Néill, a patronymic from the personal name Niall (genitive Néill), see Neil and also Neilson, which was sometimes substituted for McNeil in Lowland Scotland.
History: The Scottish Clan McNeil claims descent from the early Irish king Niall of the Nine Hostages (see O'Neill ), and the name is associated in particular with the island of Barra in the Hebrides, having been brought there from Ireland in 1049. Some members of this clan later migrated to Antrim and Derry in Ireland. A different Scottish Clan MacNeill (spelled with two l's) has a traditional ancestral home on the island of Gigha.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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