Brief Life History of Florence Louise
When Florence Louise Cole was born on 8 January 1924, in Middleton, Canyon, Idaho, United States, her father, Heber David Cole, was 27 and her mother, Rachel Louise Ward, was 20. She married James Charles Hruska on 12 September 1948, in Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, United States. She lived in North Caldwell Election Precinct, Canyon, Idaho, United States in 1940 and Fort Lee, Prince George, Virginia, United States in 1967. She died on 8 September 1997, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Meridian, Ada, Idaho, United States.
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- Florence Hruska, "United States 1950 Census"
- Florence Hruska, "Idaho Births and Christenings, 1856-1965"
- Florence Cole, "Idaho Marriages, 1878-1898; 1903-1942"
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World Events (8)
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
Name Meaning
English: usually from the Middle English and Old French personal name Col(e), Coll(e), Coul(e), a pet form of Nicol (see Nichol and Nicholas ), a common personal name from the mid 13th century onward. English families with this name migrated to Scotland and to Ulster (especially Fermanagh).
English: occasionally perhaps from a different (early) Middle English personal name Col, of native English or Scandinavian origin. Old English Cola was originally a nickname from Old English col ‘coal’ in the sense ‘coal-black (of hair), swarthy’ and is the probable source of most of the examples in Domesday Book. In the northern and eastern counties of England settled by Vikings in the 10th and 11th centuries, alternative sources are Old Norse Kolr and Koli (either from a nickname ‘the swarthy one’ or a short form of names in Kol-), and Old Norse Kollr (from a nickname, perhaps ‘the bald one’).
English: nickname for someone with swarthy skin or black hair, from Middle English col, coul(e) ‘charcoal, coal’ (Old English col).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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