Brief Life History of Mercedes
When Mercedes Medina was born on 29 August 1922, in Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas, United States, her father, Luis Gonzaga Martinez Medina, was 47 and her mother, Francisca Monroy " Mama Pancha" Romero, was 38. She died on 28 January 1994, at the age of 71.
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Family Time Line
Sources (6)
- Mercedes Medina in household of Francisca Medina, "United States Census, 1940"
- Mercedes Medina, "Texas Death Index, 1903-2000"
- Mercedes Medina, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1929 · The Great Depression Arrives
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.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Luis, Carlos, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Ramon, Mario, Rafael. Portuguese Lidio, Ligia, Anatolio, Duarte, Joao.
Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic): habitational name from any of several places, as for example Medina-Sidonia in Cádiz province and Medina del Campo in Valladolid province, so called from Arabic madīna ‘city’.
Jewish (Sephardic): also an adoption of the Spanish surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholic.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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