Brief Life History of Melba
When Melba Merritt was born on 14 July 1922, in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States, her father, Martin Emor Merritt, was 25 and her mother, Charlotte May Webb, was 20. She married Ted Junior Martindale on 25 April 1941, in Utah, United States. She lived in United States in 1949 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. She died on 24 June 2008, in Yucca Valley, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 85.
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- Melba M Tronsgaard, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Melba Merritt - Individual or family possessions: birth: 14 July 1922; Payson, Utah, Utah, United States
- Melba Merritt, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1923 · The Last Indian War
The Posey War was to be considered the final Indian War in American history. It was a minor conflict, but it involved a mass exodus of Ute and Paiute from their land around current day Bluff, Utah. The natives were led by a chief named Posey, hence the name, who took his people into the mountains to try and escape his pursuers. The war ended after a skirmish at Comb Ridge. Posey was badly wounded, and his band was taken to a prisoner-of-war camp in Blanding. When Posey's death was confirmed by the authorities, the prisoners were released and given land allotments to farm and raise livestock.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Merriott , Marriott , or Marritt. The last of these is most often a variant of Merriott or Marriott , but possibly in some instances from Middle English Marret or Merret, a syncopated form of Margaret, Mergeret.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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