Brief Life History of John Anthony
When John Anthony Sapp was born on 4 March 1932, in Brooks, Georgia, United States, his father, Gordon John Brown Sapp, was 28 and his mother, Sarah Ann Marshall, was 27. He lived in District 660, Brooks, Georgia, United States in 1940. He died on 28 November 2002, in Georgia, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Bethlehem Cemetery, Quitman, Brooks, Georgia, United States.
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- John Sapp in household of J B Gordon Sapp, "United States Census, 1940"
- John A Sapp, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- John Anthony Sapp, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
1942 · Germans Sink Ships Near St. Simons Island
Lights from homes along the coast of St. Simons Island provided a clear view of the SS Oklahoma for German U-boat Captain Reinhard Hardegen on April 8, 1942. A German torpedo was fired at the SS Oklahoma shortly after midnight. An hour later, a second torpedo was fired at the oil tanker Esso Baton Rouge. Both ships sunk and the attacks left 22 seamen dead. After the incident, residents of the Golden Isles panicked over concern of a German Invasion of the coast and were stringently observant of a nighttime blackout.
1951 · The Twenty-Second Amendment
Before the Twenty-second Amendment, the Presidency didn’t have a set number limit on how many times they could be elected or re-elected to the office of President of the United States. The Amendment sets that limit to two times, consecutively or not, and sets additional conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.
Name Meaning
German: from a short form (Sabbe) of an ancient Germanic personal name with sacha ‘legal matter or action’ as the first element.
English: variant of Sopp with the vowel unrounded.
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a fir-tree, from Middle English sap(e) ‘fir-tree’ (Old English sæppe).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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