Brief Life History of Shirley
When Shirley Mackey was born on 22 February 1918, in Zanesville, Muskingum, Ohio, United States, her father, William P. Mackey, was 52 and her mother, Martha Ruth Lawhead, was 22. She married Harold Scott Westerman on 11 October 1940, in Wayne, Ohio, United States. She lived in Wayne Township, Muskingum, Ohio, United States in 1920 and Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, United States in 1930. She died on 26 March 2007, in Orono, Penobscot, Maine, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Orono, Penobscot, Maine, United States.
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- Shirly M Westerman, "United States 1950 Census"
- Shirley M Mackey, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Shirley Mackey Westerman, "Michigan, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"
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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1920 · Woman's Suffrage Referendum 1920
The voting ballet from September 13, 1920 included a veto referendum that would give women the right to vote in the presidential elections. The referendum won, with 88,080 votes (74.30%) supporting the change. This resulted in women from Maine being among the first in the country to obtain suffrage.
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
Pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, this is Irish, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Macdha ‘descendant of Macdha’, a personal name meaning ‘virile, manly’.
With the stress on the second syllable, it is a variant of Scottish and Irish McKay .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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