Brief Life History of Ethel May
When Ethel May Beck was born on 21 May 1880, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, her father, Joseph Frederich Beck, was 44 and her mother, Rosana Or Rosina Visosky, was 39. She married Fredrick August Dierking in 1899, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States for about 30 years. She died on 13 December 1916, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
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- Mae E Dierking in household of Fred A Dierking, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ethel May Beck - birth: 22 May 1879; Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
- Mae Ethel Dierking, "Find A Grave Index"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, from northern Middle English bekke ‘stream’ (Old Norse bekkr).
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France named Bec, for example Bec Hellouin in Eure, named with Old Norman French bec ‘stream’, from the same Old Norse root as in 1 above.
English: from the Middle English personal name Becke (Old English Becca or Beocca), of uncertain origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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