Brief Life History of Alice Ethelyn
When Alice Ethelyn Witham was born on 5 September 1915, in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Zebulon Witham, was 35 and her mother, Marguerite Anne Comeau, was 36. She married Joseph Irving Boudreau on 8 May 1936, in Seabrook, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in North Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1940 and Spring Street Cemetery, Essex, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1950. She died on 13 August 2004, in Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 88.
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- Alice E Boudreau, "United States 1950 Census"
- Alice Ethelena Witham, "Massachusetts, Births, 1841-1915"
- Alice Ethelyn Witham, "New Hampshire, Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places so called, particularly those in Essex, Lincolnshire, and Somerset, though most often from Essex. The Essex placename may derive from Old English wiht ‘curve, bend’ + hām ‘village, homestead’. North and South Witham in Lincolnshire take their names from the river Witham (of uncertain origin). Witham on the Hill (Lincolnshire) may derive from the Old English personal name Wit(t)a, Old English wita ‘councillor’, or wiht ‘curve, bend’ + hām. The Somerset placename derives from the Old English personal name Wit(t)a or Old English wita + hām.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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