Brief Life History of Marilynn
When Marilynn Cross was born on 19 May 1931, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Guild Le Roy Cross, was 33 and her mother, Lennie Maria Davidson, was 22. She married Rex Henry Ballard on 2 June 1951, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 23 January 1999, in Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Fort Bridger Cemetery, Fort Bridger, Uinta, Wyoming, United States.
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- Marilyn Cross in household of Guild Cross, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Utah, U.S., Select Marriage Index, 1887-1985
- Marilynn Ballard, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
1933 · Lone Cedar Tree Monument
The Lone Cedar Tree is a historical monument located near downtown Salt Lake City and was the location of the only tree growing in the valley in 1847, when early pioneers arrived in the valley. The Daughters of Utah Pioneers erected the monument to honor the Mormon heritage and history of Salt Lake City.
1949 · NATO is Established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The agreement of the alliance is to help defend each other if attacked by an external country. The last country to enter was Montenegro in 2017.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a cross, such as one set up by the roadside or in a marketplace, from Middle English cros (Old English cros and Old Norse kross, ultimately from Latin crux, crucem). It is commonly Latinized in medieval records as ad crucem and de Cruce but examples of this can just as well belong to the synonymous but less common name Crouch . In a few cases the surname may have been given originally to someone who lived by a crossroads, but this sense of the word seems to have been a comparatively late development. In other cases, the surname (and its European cognates; see 3 below) may have denoted someone who carried the cross in processions of the Christian Church, but in English at least the usual word for this sense was Crozier .
Irish: shortened form of McCrossen .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cross’ or ‘the cross’, such as French Lacroix , German Kreutz , and Slovenian and Croatian Križ (see Kriz ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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