Jimmy Nelson Barron

Brief Life History of Jimmy Nelson

When Jimmy Nelson Barron was born on 22 December 1933, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, his father, Cecil Barron, was 31 and his mother, Alma Hatley, was 29. He lived in Shelby, Tennessee, United States in 1935 and Civil District 2, Shelby, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He died on 18 April 1989, in Gilman, Iroquois, Illinois, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Gilman Cemetery, Gilman, Iroquois, Illinois, United States.

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Jimmy Nelson Barron
1933–1989
Nancy Jane Deckert
1938–2019

Sources (3)

  • Jimmy Barron in household of Cecil Barron, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Jimmy Barron, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Jimmy Nelson Barron, "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

On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and a small band of scientists and engineers demonstrated that a simple construction of graphite bricks and uranium lumps could produce controlled heat. The space chosen for the first nuclear fission reactor was a squash court under the football stadium at the University of Chicago.

1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War

The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Jesus, Manuel, Francisco, Carlos, Miguel, Raul, Pedro, Ruben, Alfredo, Luis.

Scottish: status name from Scots baron, which in the Highlands denoted a small proprietary landholder. In Angus it alluded specifically to a tenant of one of the small baronies attached to the Abbey of Coupar Angus. The surname was taken by Scottish migrants to Ulster. Compare Baron .

Scottish: shortened form of McBarron, from Scottish Gaelic Mac a' Bharain ‘son of the baron’. See Baron and 1 above.

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

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