Brief Life History of Bernice
When Bernice Adams was born on 20 June 1907, in Tryon, Lincoln, Oklahoma, United States, her father, Robert Lee Adams, was 25 and her mother, Dora E. Clelland, was 20. She married Burton Reese Metcalf on 5 April 1927, in Shoshone, Lincoln, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Richfield Election Precinct, Lincoln, Idaho, United States in 1940 and Cambridge, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1946. She died on 19 February 1996, in Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Caldwell, Canyon, Idaho, United States.
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- Bernice Adams in household of Robert L Adams, "United States Census, 1920"
- Bernice Adams, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- Bernice A Metcalf, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
1910 · State Capital Moves to Oklahoma City
The state capital of Oklahoma moved from Guthrie to Oklahoma City on June 10, 1910.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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