Marguerite Rose Murray

Brief Life History of Marguerite Rose

When Marguerite Rose Murray was born on 1 April 1919, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, James F. Murray, was 37 and her mother, Stella Ellen Jackson, was 25. She married John Arlington Sharp on 1 October 1942, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920 and Salt Lake City Ward 6, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 29 May 2003, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Arlington Sharp
1914–1960
Marguerite Rose Murray
1919–2003
Marriage: 1 October 1942
James Arlington Sharp
1946–2003
Michael Sharp
1951–1994

Sources (13)

  • Marguerite R Sharp, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Marguerite R Sharp, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Marguerite R Sharp in entry for Michael John Or Mike Sharp, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

World Events (8)

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

1923 · President Harding visits Utah to get to know the people.

President Warren G. Harding's visited Utah as part of a broader tour of the western United States designed to bring him closer to the people and their conditions. After Speaking at Liberty Park, the president went to the Hotel Utah where he met with President Heber J. Grant and talked to him about the history of the church.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

Scottish: habitational name from Moray in northeastern Scotland, which derives from Celtic mori- ‘sea’ + treb- ‘settlement’. The founder of the Scottish house of Murray was a Fleming named Freskin who was granted Strathbrock in West Lothian and Duffus in Moray by David I. The family took its name from the region in the late 12th century.

Irish and Scottish: shortened form of McMurray .

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muireadhaigh ‘descendant of Muireadhach’ a personal name meaning ‘mariner’. Occasionally it may be a shortened form of McMurray .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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