When Wesley Franklin Crocker was born on 5 June 1914, in Madison, Texas, United States, his father, Henry Irvin Crocker, was 24 and his mother, Nancy Alice Vernon, was 22. He married Bessie Estell Vernon on 28 September 1933. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 30 August 1998, in Brazos, Texas, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Zulch, Madison, Texas, United States.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
English (southwestern): occupational name for a potter, from Middle English crockere, an agent derivative of Middle English crok(ke) ‘pot’ (Old English croc, croc(ca)).
English (of Norman origin): variant of Craker .
Americanized form of German Krocker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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