Brief Life History of Barbara Jean
When Barbara Jean Hawkinberry was born on 23 November 1928, in West Virginia, United States, her father, John Forest Hawkinberry, was 30 and her mother, Grace Ruth Hartley, was 26. She married Gail Roger Spencer on 11 March 1951, in Marion, West Virginia, United States. She lived in Winfield District, Marion, West Virginia, United States in 1940 and Winfield, Marion, West Virginia, United States in 1950. She died on 8 February 2001, at the age of 72, and was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, Palatine, Marion, West Virginia, United States.
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Sources (5)
- Barber J Hawkenberry, "United States 1950 Census"
- Barbara Hawkinberry, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Barbara Jean Hawkinberry Spencer, "Find A Grave Index"
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1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
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
From Latin, meaning ‘foreign woman’ (a feminine form of barbarus ‘foreign’, from Greek, referring originally to the unintelligible chatter of foreigners, which sounded to the Greek ear like no more than bar-bar). St Barbara has always been one of the most popular saints in the calendar, although there is some doubt whether she ever actually existed. According to legend, she was imprisoned in a tower and later murdered by her father, who was then struck down by a bolt of lightning. Accordingly, she is the patron of architects, stonemasons, and fortifications, and of firework makers, artillerymen, and gunpowder magazines.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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