Brief Life History of Mary Theresia
When Mary Theresia Gazdik was born on 2 December 1914, in Hudson, Fremont, Wyoming, United States, her father, Janos Gazdik, was 38 and her mother, Julianna Fazekas, was 24. She married Francis Hillard on 10 January 1942, in Buffalo, Johnson, Wyoming, United States. She lived in Election District 2, Fremont, Wyoming, United States in 1920 and Worland, Washakie, Wyoming, United States in 1950. She died on 12 February 2004, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Cheyenne, Laramie, Wyoming, United States.
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- Mary Hillard, "United States Census, 1950"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Gazdik - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Mary Gazdik
- Mary Hillard, "Wyoming, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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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.
1920
Women got to vote first time in the state of Wyoming.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Slovak and Czech (Moravian) (Gazdík): occupational name from gazdík, a diminutive of Gazda ‘farmer’. In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the Polish cognate Gaździk.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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