Joan Elizabeth Adams

Female6 November 1953–18 November 2004

Brief Life History of Joan Elizabeth

When Joan Elizabeth Adams was born on 6 November 1953, in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States, her father, Carl Lindal Adams, was 27 and her mother, Billie Lou Birkhead, was 25. She died on 18 November 2004, in Grove, Delaware, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Park Grove Cemetery, Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.

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Family Time Line

Carl Lindal Adams
1926–1980
Billie Lou Birkhead
1927–2005
Joan Elizabeth Adams
1953–2004

Sources (3)

  • Joan Elizabeth (Adams) Partain, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Joan Elizabeth Partain, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
  • Joan Elizabeth Partain, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

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World Events (8)

1954 · Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Age 1

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.

1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins

Age 2

The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.

1967 · The Twenty-Fifth Amendment

Age 14

The Twenty-fifth Amendment clarifies that when a President can't fulfill his role as President, the Vice President becomes President. He may do so only If the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office.

Name Meaning

English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .

Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.

History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.

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

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