Brief Life History of Mary Lois
When Mary Lois Clapp was born on 25 February 1898, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Pleasant Calloway Clapp, was 43 and her mother, Mary Evaline Tunnell, was 36. She married Raleigh H Preston on 21 March 1923. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in United States in 1949 and Knox, Tennessee, United States in 1950. She died in September 1980, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States.
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Sources (14)
- Mary C Preston, "United States 1950 Census"
- Mary L. Clapp, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Mary Clapp Preston, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
English (Devon and Somerset): either from Middle English clop(pe), clap(pe) ‘lump’, perhaps denoting a stocky person, or Middle English clap(pe) ‘loud noise; noisy, idle chatter’.
Americanized form of German Klapp .
In some cases also an Americanized form of Slovenian Klep: nickname from klep ‘sharpness of scythe or sickle’, also ‘sharpening with a hammer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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