Brief Life History of Margie Ethel
When Margie Ethel Dill was born on 14 June 1896, in Murray, Cass, Nebraska, United States, her father, Benjamin Dill, was 34 and her mother, Emma Jane Adams, was 32. She married William Henry Vinton Rice on 29 April 1914, in Nebraska City, Otoe, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Hunter Township, Wayne, Nebraska, United States in 1920. She died on 21 May 1982, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Plattsmouth, Cass, Nebraska, United States.
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- Ethel Rice in household of Will Rice, "United States Census, 1920"
- Ethel M. Dill, "Nebraska, Marriages, 1855-1995"
- Ethel Rice, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
German: from a pet form of the personal name Dietrich .
German: metonymic occupational name for a sawyer, from Middle High German dill(e) ‘(floor)board’.
German: habitational name from Dill (Rhineland-Palatinate) or Dille (Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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