Everett Eugene Cleveland

Brief Life History of Everett Eugene

When Everett Eugene Cleveland was born on 20 January 1921, in Page, Holt, Nebraska, United States, his father, Ezra Everett Cleveland, was 33 and his mother, Gladys Belle Shipman, was 21. He married Ioline Grace Townsend on 7 September 1944, in Kingman, Mohave, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Holt Creek Township, Holt, Nebraska, United States in 1940 and Bassett, Rock, Nebraska, United States for about 58 years. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 12 April 2008, in Alliance, Box Butte, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Chatsworth, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Everett Eugene Cleveland
1921–2008
Ioline Grace Townsend
1918–1989
Marriage: 7 September 1944
Erwin Eugene "Gene" Cleveland
1945–2021

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  • Everett E Cleveland, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Everett E Cleveland, "Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964"
  • Everett Eugene Cleveland, "Nebraska, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"

World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights

Is a proposed amendment to help guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens of the United States. Its main objective is to end legal distinctions between the two genders in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other legal matters. Even though it isn't the 28th Amendment yet, it has started conversations about the meaning of legal equality.

1944 · The G.I Bill

The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of several places in Devon, Essex, or the North Yorkshire, formed from the genitive plural (clifa) of Old English clif ‘bank, slope’ + land ‘land’.

Americanized form (and a rare Norwegian variant) of Norwegian Kleveland or its variant Kleiveland, and also of Kleven or its variant Kleiven.

History: Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th president of the US, was the fifth child of a country Presbyterian clergyman. His father, Richard Falley Cleveland, a graduate of Yale College and of the theological seminary at Princeton, was descended from Moses Cleaveland who arrived in MA in 1635.

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

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