Brief Life History of Dallas Gerald
When Dallas Gerald Reynolds was born on 4 July 1942, in Elbert, Georgia, United States, his father, Jones Columbus Reynolds, was 24 and his mother, Geneva Fowler, was 19. He died on 4 February 1997, in Dewy Rose, Elbert, Georgia, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Dewy Rose, Elbert, Georgia, United States.
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Sources (10)
- Dallas J Reynolds, "United States 1950 Census"
- Dallas Gerald Reynolds, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Dallas B Reynolds, "Find A Grave Index"
World Events (8)
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.
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.
1958 · The First U.S. Satellite in Space
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Reynold , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish (Leitrim): in Ulster the English name in 1 above was substituted for Mac Raghnaill; see McReynolds .
History: Christopher Reynolds of Gravesend, Kent, England, arrived in America sometime before his marriage in 1644 in Isle of Wight County, VA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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