Brief Life History of Robert Lee
When Robert Lee Neff was born on 25 March 1930, in Wolfe, Kentucky, United States, his father, Leslie Byrd Neff, was 32 and his mother, Maude Howard, was 29. He married Edith Ann Poole on 11 January 1952, in Lewisport, Hancock, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 2 Stillwater, Wolfe, Kentucky, United States in 1940 and Hardinsburg, Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States in 1950. He died on 16 June 1980, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States.
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- Robert Neff, "United States Census, 1950"
- Robert Neff, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Robert Lee Neff, "Find a Grave Index"
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1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1936 · The Last Public Hanging in Kentucky
The hanging of Rainey Bethea on August 14,1936, in Owensboro, Kentucky was the last pubic hanging in the state and the United States. Anywhere from 15,000-20,000 people showed up for this event. The media was all over the hanging since the Sheriff of Davies county was a female, even though she did not pull levers. Because of the media coverage and the circus it caused, this was the last hanging.
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
German and Swiss German: relationship name from Middle High German neve ‘nephew’ (later rather broader in application, like cousin in English), hence probably a distinguishing name for a close relation or familiar of a prominent personage. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variant Naff .
Dutch: variant of Neve , cognate with 1 above.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Neffe ‘nephew’, cognate with 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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