Brief Life History of Martha
When Martha Leach was born on 2 January 1931, in Louise, Wharton, Texas, United States, her father, Alvie Lewis Leach, was 60 and her mother, Louise Lovie Williams, was 42. She married Alfred Frank Waligura on 23 November 1950. She died on 19 September 1978, in Austin, Travis, Texas, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Assumption Cemetery, Austin, Travis, Texas, United States.
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- Martha Leech, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
- Martha Leach, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Martha Waligura, "Texas Deaths, 1977-1986"
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1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
1932
Los Angeles, California, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a physician, from Middle English leche, lache ‘physician’ (Old English lǣce ‘leech; physician, blood-letter, surgeon’). The name refers to the medieval medical practice of bleeding, typically by applying leeches to a patient. The surname is recorded in the late 14th-century Poll Tax Returns for men whose occupation is stated as medicus ‘physician’, or occasionally spicer (spicers acted as apothecaries), but some men named le Leche have unrelated occupations including cultor ‘cultivator, farm laborer’, which suggests that leche could refer to an amateur ‘medicine man’ who supplied folk remedies.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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