Brief Life History of Walter Raymond
When Walter Raymond Hale Sr. was born on 1 February 1929, in Boyd, Kentucky, United States, his father, George H Hale, was 23 and his mother, Gladys Marie Pack, was 16. He had at least 1 daughter with Laura Magdalene Helms. He lived in Ashland, Boyd, Kentucky, United States for about 69 years. He died on 22 July 1999, in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Dixon Cemetery, Westwood, Boyd, Kentucky, United States.
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- Raymond Hale in household of Eda Hale, "United States Census, 1940"
- "Walter R Hale in the Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999" Lists mothers name, birthdate, and birthplace.
- Walter R Hale, "Find A Grave Index"
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1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1936 · The Last Public Hanging in Kentucky
The hanging of Rainey Bethea on August 14,1936, in Owensboro, Kentucky was the last pubic hanging in the state and the United States. Anywhere from 15,000-20,000 people showed up for this event. The media was all over the hanging since the Sheriff of Davies county was a female, even though she did not pull levers. Because of the media coverage and the circus it caused, this was the last hanging.
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
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a (usually remote) nook or corner of land, from Old English and Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook, hollow’, or a habitational name from a place so named such as Hale in Cheshire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Holme Hale (Norfolk), Hale Street (Kent), and Haile (Cumberland). In northern England the word often has a specialized meaning, denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, typically one deposited in a bend. See Haugh . In southeastern England it often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from any of several places in England named with this fossilized inflected form, which would originally have been preceded by a preposition, e.g. in the hale or at the hale. This surname is also established in south Wales.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile (see McHale ).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Halle .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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