Brief Life History of Mavis Nellie
When Mavis Nellie Herrick was born on 20 March 1923, in Northville, Spink, South Dakota, United States, her father, Chester Lymon Herrick, was 29 and her mother, Ardis Gertrude Cook, was 23. She married Samuel LeRoy McMurdie on 14 February 1942, in Buhl, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States. She died on 14 July 1945, in Twin Falls, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States, at the age of 22, and was buried in Twin Falls Cemetery, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States.
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- Mavis Herrick, "South Dakota, State Census, 1925"
- Leona Ruth Campbell, "Idaho Marriage Index, 1947-1961"
- Mavis Nellie Herrick McMurdie, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1929
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.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
English: from the Old Norse personal name Eiríkr, Old Danish, Old Swedish Erik, itself from Proto-Scandinavian ain- ‘one, select’ + rík- ‘rule(r)’ + prosthetic H-.
Irish (Cork): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEirc ‘descendant of Erc’, a personal name meaning ‘speckled, dark red’ or ‘salmon’, and borne by a Christian saint. In Munster and Ulster this name has been changed to Harkin .
History: The English poet Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was the son of a wealthy London goldsmith, whose family had a long history in the town of Leicester. DNA analysis suggests that the modern surname is monogenetic, i.e. from a single eponymous bearer. The earliest known bearer of the name in Leicester was John Eirich, recorded as a burgess there in 1211. Leicester was one of the headquarters of the Viking army that conquered and settled the eastern midlands in the late 9th century, leading to the English adoption of many Old Norse personal names, such as Eirikr, as personal names. The initial aspirate is first recorded in the name of Nicholas Heyryke, recorded as a Leicester burgess in 1524.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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