Brief Life History of Hobert Washington
When Hobert Washington McCracken was born on 12 June 1903, in Clyde, Haywood, North Carolina, United States, his father, James Marion McCracken Jr., was 40 and his mother, Lura Victoria Bradshaw, was 29. He married Violet Leigh Houghton in 1929, in Hopewell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Millshoal Township, Macon, North Carolina, United States in 1920. He died on 21 July 1983, in City Point, Hopewell, Virginia, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Trinity Methodist Church Graveyard, Hopewell, Virginia, United States.
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Sources (14)
- H W Mccracken, "United States Census, 1940"
- Hobart Washington Mccracken, "North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000"
- Hobart Washington McCracken, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Marriage Registers, 1853-1935"
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1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1923
The town of City Point was annexed by the independent city of Hopewell in 1923. Now it is a historic district of Hopewell.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
Irish (northern) and Scottish (Galloway): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Reachtain, a variant of Mac Neachtain (see McNaughton ), with the replacement of n by r in the cluster cn that is characteristic of Ulster Irish and Scottish Gaelic. The -ck- in the spelling here is a result of the Scottish Gaelic pronunciation of cht.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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