Brief Life History of Melissa Alice
When Melissa Alice Crosby was born on 8 November 1906, in Cotuit, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Samuel Childs Crosby, was 29 and her mother, Alice Connor, was 22. She married William Leroy Cash on 14 March 1928, in Cotuit, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States in 1930 and Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States in 1940. She died on 22 November 1961, in Cotuit, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 55.
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- Melissa A Crosby in household of Samuel C Crosby, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Melissa Alice Crosby - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Melissa Alice Crosby
- Melissa A Crosby in entry for W E Cash, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
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Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old Norse kross ‘cross’ + bȳ ‘farm, settlement’ in Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmorland, North Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire.
Irish: surname adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Mac an Chrosáin (see McCrossen ).
History: The surname of the Irish family of Crosbie is ultimately derived from providing the chief bards to the O’Mores, Chiefs of Leix: crosán means ‘bard’ or ‘satirist’. Pádraic Mac Crosáin or Mac An Chrosáin took the Anglicized name Patrick Crosbie c. 1583.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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