When Gladys Leona Short was born on 30 January 1905, in Kansas, United States, her father, Charles Ruben Short, was 32 and her mother, Louisa Ellen Hight, was 32. She married Harold Grant Brannan on 27 November 1922, in Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Majestic Election Precinct, Douglas, Washington, United States in 1940 and Okanogan, Okanogan, Washington, United States for about 1 years. She died in May 1984, in Saint John, Whitman, Washington, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Blue Mountain Memorial Garden, College Place, Walla Walla, Washington, United States.
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English: nickname for a short person, from Middle English short ‘short’ (Old English sceort).
English: topographic name for someone who lived at a detached or cut-off piece of land (Middle English shorte, shirte, from Old English scierte, scerte, scyrte) or else a habitational name from a place so named, such as Shoart in Harbeldown (Kent) and Shuart in Saint Nicholas at Wade (Kent). Compare Shorter .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac an Gheairr, Mac an Ghirr ‘son of the short man’ (see McGirr ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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