When Ola Mae Watson was born on 2 August 1928, in Boone, Watauga, North Carolina, United States, her father, Vonley Perry Watson, was 22 and her mother, Alba Jane Baird, was 22. She married Carson Byrd Smith on 18 August 1945, in Boone, Watauga, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Yadkin Valley, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States in 1930 and Shawneehaw Township, Watauga, North Carolina, United States in 1940. She died on 1 November 1990, in Boone, Watauga, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Matney Liberty Cemetery, Matney, Watauga, North Carolina, United States.
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13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
Scottish, English, and Irish: patronymic meaning ‘son of Wat’, a pet form of Walter that was particularly common in Scotland and northern England. See Watt .
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