Brief Life History of Viola Ellen
When Viola Ellen McKinney was born on 14 January 1912, in Lander, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States, her father, Edward Coffin McKinney, was 45 and her mother, Lenora Sarah Gaylor, was 40. She married Allen George Russell Sr. in 1932. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Election District 8, Fremont, Wyoming, United States in 1920 and Covina, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. She died on 24 January 1954, in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Magnolia Memorial Park, Garden Grove, Orange, California, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (8)
- Viola McKinney in household of Ed McKinney, "United States Census, 1920"
- Viola Ellen Hawkins, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Viola Ellen McKinney Hawkins, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
1920
Women got to vote first time in the state of Wyoming.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cionaodha or Mac Cionaoith ‘son of ç’, an early Gaelic personal name popular from the ninth century and possibly derived from Pictish.
Irish (northern): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinnigh ‘son of Coinneach’, an Old Irish personal name, borne by a Christian saint and Anglicized in Ireland as Canice, which was treated in Scotland as equivalent to Kenneth . This surname was usually Anglicized in Scotland as McKenzie , but is otherwise hard to distinguish from sense 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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