Brief Life History of Lee Ray
When Lee Ray Chidester was born on 15 January 1951, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, James Earl Chidester, was 41 and his mother, Thelma Esma Strasburg, was 35. He lived in House, Quay, New Mexico, United States in 1935 and Highland Election Precinct, Utah, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 7 August 1952, in Highland, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Sources (7)
- Legacy NFS Source: Lee Ray Chidester - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Lee Ray Chidester
- Lee Ray Chidister, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Lee Ray in entry for Wesley Earl Chidester, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1952 · Uranium in Moab
Uranium mining in Utah has a history going back more than 100 years but, it started as a byproduct of vanadium mining. With the development of Nuclear Weapons, Utah saw a uranium boom in the late 1940s and early 1950s, but uranium mining declined near the end of the Cold War. Currently Uranium is still being mined but just a small amount for power plants and for research.
Name Meaning
Probably an altered form of English Chichester . It is not found in English records.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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