Brief Life History of Margaret May
When Margaret May Payne was born on 25 October 1919, in Virginia, United States, her father, Otis Mead Payne Sr, was 26 and her mother, Ora Lightfoot Wells, was 26. She had at least 1 son with Jacob William Day Jr. She lived in Tunstall District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 2 May 2006, in Danville, Hawke, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, at the age of 86, and was buried in Danville, Virginia, United States.
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- Margret Payne in household of Mearde Payne, "United States Census, 1920"
- Margaret Mae Payne, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
- Margaret P Day, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1941 · Pentagon is Built in Arlington
The Pentagon was developed as the Department of Defense had outgrown the other buildings were it was previous located.The groundbreaking for the Pentagon was on September 11, 1941. When the Pentagon was being built, it was determined that it could be no taller than four stories high. Colonel Leslie R. Groves was the supervisor of the project, he would later become known for helping on the Manhattan Project.
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pai(e)n, Pagen (from Latin Paganus), a fairly common personal name among Normans. It derived from a word that originally meant ‘villager, rustic’, later ‘heathen’, but it had doubtless lost these connotations in its use as a late medieval personal name. This name has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century.
History: Thomas Payne, who was a freeman of Plymouth Colony in 1639, was the founder of a large American family, which included Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. See also Paine .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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