Brief Life History of Martha Howell
When Martha Howell Summers was born on 25 May 1925, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, her father, Arnold Lewis Summers, was 24 and her mother, Daisey Naomi Stallings, was 23. She died in May 1987, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 62.
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- Ann Elizabeth Summers in household of Naomi Summers, "United States Census, 1940"
- Willa D Summers in household of Arnold L Summers, "United States Census, 1940"
- Mattie Summers in household of Arnold Summers, "United States Census, 1930"
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World Events (8)
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1931 · The Parthenon is Built
In 1931, a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Greece was erected in Nashville, Tennessee. The Parthenon was meant to be temporary, but became a permanent part of Tennessee culture. It also has a replica of the statue of Athena the Goddess of War.At the same time a city over Memphis built giant pyramid replica to remind everyone what the city was named for.
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: variant of Summer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: occupational or topographic name for someone who lived or worked at the house of someone named Somer (see Summer ).
Irish (Sligo): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Somacháin ‘descendant of Somachán’, a personal name meaning ‘soft, gentle, innocent’, due to confusion with samhradh ‘summer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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