Beecher Dockery

Brief Life History of Beecher

When Beecher Dockery was born on 19 February 1928, in Grandview, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, his father, Rollen Dockery, was 27 and his mother, Eva Burnettie " Nettie " Brown, was 23. He lived in United States in 1949 and Blount, Tennessee, United States in 1950. He died on 27 September 1991, in Maryville, Blount, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Alcoa, Blount, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Rollen Dockery
1900–1973
Eva Burnettie " Nettie " Brown
1904–1992
Robert Lee Dockery
1923–1997
Birdie Dockery
Earnest Paul Dockery
Elarvee. " L V " Dockery
1924–2021
L B Dockery
1925–
Violet Dockery
1926–2016
Beecher Dockery
1928–1991
Lucille Dockery
1930–2012
G M Dockery Junior
1933–1975
Infant Daughter Betty Lou Erline Dockery
1936–1938
Morris Eldon Dockery
1940–2015
Morris Eldon Dockey
1940–2015
Robert Ray "Bobby" Dockery
1941–1993
Douglas MacArthur Dockery
1945–1947
Charles Edward Dockery
1947–2015

Sources (11)

  • Beecher Dockery, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Beecher Dockery, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
  • Beecher Dockery, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1929

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

1931 · The Parthenon is Built

In 1931, a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Greece was erected in Nashville, Tennessee. The Parthenon was meant to be temporary, but became a permanent part of Tennessee culture. It also has a replica of the statue of Athena the Goddess of War.At the same time a city over Memphis built  giant pyramid replica to remind everyone what the city was named for. 

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.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Dockray , a habitational name from any of several places in Cumbria called Dockray, from Middle English dokke (Old English docce) ‘docks or sorrel’ + Middle English wra (Old Norse vrá) ‘nook’, meaning ‘nook where dock grows’.

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dochraidh ‘descendant of Dochradh’, a personal name that is a variant of Dochartach (see Doherty ).

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

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1940 neighbors and family

Name Birth Residence Elaver Almond North Carolina 1940 Beaverdam Township, Beaverdam, Cherokee, North Carolina, USA Velin Almond North Carolina 1940 Beaverdam Township, Beaverdam, Cherokee, North Ca …

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