Brief Life History of Evangeline Mae
When Evangeline Mae Wesely was born on 15 May 1923, in Nebraska, United States, her father, Joseph Amiel Wesely, was 30 and her mother, Ethel Christina Fisher Wesely, was 20. She married Joseph Frank Vojtech on 28 April 1942, in Saunders, Valley, Nebraska, United States. She lived in Cedar Election Precinct, Saunders, Nebraska, United States for about 10 years and Morse Bluff, Saunders, Nebraska, United States in 2000. She died on 15 November 2000, in North Bend, Dodge, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Morse Bluff, Saunders, Nebraska, United States.
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- Evangeline Wesely in household of Ethel Wesely, "United States Census, 1930"
- Evangeline Mae Wesely, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
- Evangeline M Vojtech, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
Name Meaning
Germanized or Americanized form of Czech and Slovak Veselý (see Vesely ). This form of the surname is also found in Poland, where it is a rare variant of Polish cognate Wesoły (from wesoły ‘cheerful’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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