Brief Life History of Myrtle May
When Myrtle May Whetstone was born on 23 June 1883, in Goshen Township, Auglaize, Ohio, United States, her father, Matthew B Whetstone, was 45 and her mother, Elizabeth A Milliken, was 41. She married Vaus Harry Burden on 25 May 1905, in Auglaize, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Lima, Allen, Ohio, United States in 1910. She died on 16 January 1910, in Auglaize Township, Allen, Ohio, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in Walnut Hill Cemetery, New Hampshire, Goshen Township, Auglaize, Ohio, United States.
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- Myrtle Whetstone, "United States Census, 1910"
- Myrtle May Whetstone, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Mertel M Burden, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Whetstone in Leicestershire or Whetstone in Middlesex, or from Wheston in Derbyshire. The placenames derive from Old English hwet-stān ‘whetstone’, and are sited in areas that provided stone suitable for whetstones, i.e. stones used to sharpen knives and blades.
Americanized form of German Wettstein .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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