Brief Life History of Margarett Frances
When Margarett Frances Barnes was born on 5 October 1919, in Georgia, United States, her father, Cleveland Cordy Barnes, was 34 and her mother, Nora Mae Vaughn, was 29. She married James William Thornton on 10 October 1943. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Worthville, Butts, Georgia, United States in 1920. She died on 8 January 2005, at the age of 85, and was buried in Mount Olive Cemetery, Pavo, Thomas, Georgia, United States.
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- Margarett F Barnes in household of Cleveland Barnes, "United States Census, 1920"
- Margaret F. Thornton, "Find A Grave Index"
- Margaret Frances Thornton, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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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.
1922 · Women Granted the Right to Vote
The 19th Amendment, which allowed women the right to vote, was passed and became federal law on August 26, 1920. Georgia law prevented women from voting until 1922. The amendment wasn’t officially ratified until 1970.
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: habitational name from Barnes (on the Surrey bank of the Thames in London), named with Old English bere-ærn ‘barn, a storehouse for barley and other grain’, or a topographic name or metonymic occupational name for someone who lived by or worked at a barn or barns, from Middle English barn ‘barn, granary’.
English: variant of Barne, with excrescent -s, derived from either the Middle English personal name Bern, Barn (based on the Scandinavian personal name Biǫrn or Old English Beorn, both from a word meaning ‘warrior’), or from Middle English barn (Old Norse barn) ‘child’. The latter term is found as a byname for men of the upper classes; it might also have had the meaning ‘young man of a prominent family’, like Middle English child (see Child ).
Irish: in Ireland in many cases this is no doubt the English name, but in others it is possibly an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bearáin ‘descendant of Bearán’, a byname meaning ‘spear’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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