When Kerry Rhett Shumway was born on 19 July 1955, in Monticello, San Juan, Utah, United States, his father, Arah DeVar Shumway, was 35 and his mother, Madge Colleen Metro, was 28. He died on 23 December 1958, in Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado, United States, at the age of 3, and was buried in Blanding, San Juan, Utah, United States.
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With the construction of 41,000 miles of the Interstate Highway System, the Federal Aid Highway Act made way for the largest public works project in American history at that time. One of the purposes was to provide military access to places in case of an attack.
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
On Aug. 29, 1958, the U.S. Air Force Academy opens near Colorado Springs.
Americanized form of French Chamois . Altered ending reflects the Canadian and American French pronunciation of the diphthong oi as ‘wé’, which in France was replaced in the 17th century by the current ‘wa’.
History: The ancestor of the Shumways was Peter Shumway, originally almost certainly Pierre Chamois from France, probably a Huguenot, who was in MA by 1675. He is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of America.
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