Charlotte Josephine Higgins

Brief Life History of Charlotte Josephine

When Charlotte Josephine Higgins was born on 9 December 1929, in Washington, United States, her father, Joseph Frank Higgins, was 42 and her mother, Agnes Lillian Ames, was 20. She had at least 1 son with Jack V. Peterson Sr.. She lived in Walla Walla, Washington, United States in 1949 and Fairhaven, Whatcom, Washington, United States in 1950. She died on 14 December 2009, in Oregon, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.

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Family Time Line

Jack V. Peterson Sr.
1928–1971
Charlotte Josephine Higgins
1929–2009
Jack V. Peterson Jr.
1954–1999

Sources (8)

  • Charlote J Higgins, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Charlotte Josephine Higgins, "Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965"
  • Charlotte Josephine Peterson, "United States Social Security Death Index"

World Events (8)

1931

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

1940

Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.

1950

United States military forces play a leading role against North Korean and Chinese troops in Korean War.

Name Meaning

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiginn ‘descendant of Uiginn’, a byname meaning ‘viking, sea-rover’ (from Old Norse víkingr). Compare McGuigan .

English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): variant of Higgin, itself either a Lancashire variant of Huggin (from a pet form of Hugh ), or a variant of Hickin (from a pet form of Richard ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. See Hick and compare Higson .

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

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