Brief Life History of Blanche Hilda
When Blanche Hilda Sims was born on 27 February 1884, in Simms Settlement, Chester, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, James Timothy Sims, was 42 and her mother, Jane Sophia Dominey, was 38. She married Walter Langille Westhaver on 11 December 1901, in Hubbards, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in San Luis, San Diego, California, United States in 1935 and Judicial Township 13, Placer, California, United States in 1940. She died on 24 March 1980, in Baddeck, Victoria, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 96, and was buried in Port Hastings, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Sources (10)
- Blanche Maclean in household of John Maclean, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Blanche Hilda Sims - Government record: birth-name: Blanche Sims
- Blanche Hilda Sims, "Canada Marriages, 1661-1949"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
English (southern):
variant of Sim , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
topographic name for one who lived or worked at the house of someone called Symme (Simon).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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