Capt Jeremiah Cole Austin

Brief Life History of Jeremiah Cole

When Capt Jeremiah Cole Austin was born on 12 December 1920, in New York, United States, his father, Herbert Franklin Austin, was 32 and his mother, Mabel Lyon Hegeman, was 31. He married Harriet Ann Smith in 1942. He lived in Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, United States for about 10 years. He died on 16 September 2009, in Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

Capt Jeremiah Cole Austin
1920–2009
Harriet Ann Smith
1922–1968
Marriage: 1942

Sources (6)

  • Jere C Austin in household of Herbert Austin, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Jere C Austin, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Jere Austin in entry for Nancy Austin Kana, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"

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World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights

Is a proposed amendment to help guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens of the United States. Its main objective is to end legal distinctions between the two genders in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other legal matters. Even though it isn't the 28th Amendment yet, it has started conversations about the meaning of legal equality.

1944 · The G.I Bill

The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.

Name Meaning

English, French, and German: from the personal name Austin, from Latin Augustinus, a derivative of Augustus (see Augustin ). This was an extremely common personal name in every part of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, owing its popularity chiefly to Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430), whose influence on Christianity is generally considered to be second only to that of Saint Paul. Various religious orders came to be formed following rules named in his honor, including the ‘Austin canons’, established in the 11th century, and the ‘Austin friars’, a mendicant order dating from the 13th century. The popularity of the personal name in England was further increased by the fact that it was borne by Saint Augustine of Canterbury (died c. 605), an Italian Benedictine monk known as ‘the Apostle of the English’, who brought Christianity to southern England in 597 and founded the see of Canterbury.

English: variant of Aspden , with which this surname became confused.

History: This was the name of a merchant family that became established in eastern MA in the 17th century, notably in Charlestown. Richard Austin came from England and landed at Boston in 1638, and his son Anthony was clerk of Suffield, CT, in 1674. The surname is very common in England as well as America; this Richard Austin was only one of a number of bearers who brought it to North America. — In 1821 Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836), born in Austinville VA, founded the first Anglo colony in TX.

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

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