Ethel Marie Mayer

Brief Life History of Ethel Marie

When Ethel Marie Mayer was born on 9 January 1917, in Lima, Allen, Ohio, United States, her father, Lawrence Mayer, was 18 and her mother, Iva May Boise, was 17. She married Evan Woodrow Davidson on 13 December 1941. She died on 20 February 1995, in Lima, Allen, Ohio, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Lima, Allen, Ohio, United States.

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Evan Woodrow Davidson
1914–1989
Ethel Marie Mayer
1917–1995
Marriage: 13 December 1941

Sources (3)

  • Ethel Mayer in household of Lawrence Mayer, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Ethel Mayer in entry for Patrick L Provonsha and Cynthia M Davidson, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
  • Ethel M Mayer in household of Lawrance Mayer, "United States Census, 1920"

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World Events (8)

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Franz, Helmut, Wilhelm, Erwin, Gerhard, Heinz, Ilse, Lorenz, Wolfgang.

English (Staffordshire): post-medieval form of Mear, which is either a topographic name, from Middle English mere ‘pond, pool’ (Old English mere) or Middle English mere ‘boundary’ (Old English (ge)mǣre), or a habitational name from one or more of the many places with names derived from these terms, such as Mere (Cheshire, Lincolnshire, Wiltshire), Meir in Caverswall (Staffordshire), and Meare (Somerset).

English: occupational name for a physician, from Old French mire, Middle English mire, meir, meyre, originally synonymous with Myer .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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