Brief Life History of Vada Gertrude
When Vada Gertrude Alley was born on 12 June 1937, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States, her father, Garnett Alley, was 25 and her mother, Emma Mae Spencer, was 22. She had at least 1 son with George Washington Sawyers. She lived in Sadsburyville, Sadsbury Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States in 2009. She died on 28 December 2009, in Coatesville, Hanover, Virginia, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Oxford Cemetery, Oxford Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Sources (4)
- Vada Gertrude Alley, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
- Vada Gertrude Alley Sawyers, "Find A Grave Index"
- Vada G Williams, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1941 · Pentagon is Built in Arlington
The Pentagon was developed as the Department of Defense had outgrown the other buildings were it was previous located.The groundbreaking for the Pentagon was on September 11, 1941. When the Pentagon was being built, it was determined that it could be no taller than four stories high. Colonel Leslie R. Groves was the supervisor of the project, he would later become known for helping on the Manhattan Project.
1956 · The Federal Aid Highway Act
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.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Ally, Alli, as forms such as Johannes filius Alli (Norfolk, 1205) make clear. It may be a pet form of Alexander , Alan , Alice , or Alison , or a survival of Old Danish Alli, Old Swedish Alle, found as Alli in the Domesday Book.
In some cases also an altered form of French Hallé (see Halle 2) or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
Variant of Allee 2, a surname of French origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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