Brief Life History of Charles Clifford
When Charles Clifford Freeby was born on 15 November 1929, in Oklahoma, United States, his father, Leonard Raymond Freeby, was 31 and his mother, Gertrude Adelaide Wahl, was 28. He married Dorothy M Jackson in 1956. He lived in Newbury Township, Wabaunsee, Kansas, United States in 1940. He died on 24 November 2018, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Sunnyslope Memorial Gardens, Council Grove, Morris, Kansas, United States.
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- Charles Freeby in household of John Wahel, "United States Census, 1940"
- Charles Clifford Freeby, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1941 · Comanche Code Talkers
Many Native Americans from Oklahoma were once again employed as code talkers during WWII to create a code impenetrable by enemies. Rather than Choctaw, a Comanche-language code was developed. Several of these men were sent to invade Normandy to send messages. None of the men were killed and the Comanche code was never broken.
1954 · Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a U.S. Supreme Court case which ruled racial segregation in public schools as unconstitutional. The unanimous decision was handed down on May 17, 1954. The case was originally filed by the Brown family in Topeka, Kansas.
Name Meaning
English: possibly a variant of Friby, a habitational name from either of two places in Yorkshire: Firby in Westow or Firby in Bedale.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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