Brief Life History of Nettie Vaden
When Nettie Vaden Holloway was born on 14 March 1910, in Foscoe, Watauga, North Carolina, United States, her father, William Hardy Holloway, was 25 and her mother, Alta Orleans Mclean, was 27. She married Ishmael Arritt Pugh on 27 November 1930, in Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Courtland District, Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States for about 5 years and Chilesburg, Caroline, Virginia, United States in 1978. She died on 1 August 1985, in Allison Park, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Hampton Cemetery, Hampton Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Nettie V Pugh, "United States Census, 1940"
- Nettie Vaden Holloway, "North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000"
- Nettie V. Holloway in the Virginia, U.S., Marriage Registers, 1853-1935
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1912 · The Girl Scouts
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility
Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) sunken road’, from Middle English hol(g)h ‘hollow’ + weie ‘way, road’ (Old English holh + weg), or else a habitational name from any of numerous places so named, such as Holloway (Middlesex) or Holway (Somerset). In Ireland (Leinster), the name has sometimes been Gaelicized as Ó hAilmhic (see Hulvey ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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