Brief Life History of Edith
When Edith Murray was born on 16 May 1914, in Havre de Grace, Harford, Maryland, United States, her father, Hugh J Murray, was 50 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Storey, was 38. She had at least 1 son with Creel Donald Fluharty. She lived in Harford, Maryland, United States in 1920. She died on 3 November 1976, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Angel Hill Cemetery, Havre de Grace, Harford, Maryland, United States.
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Sources (4)
- Edith Murray in household of Hugh Murray, "United States Census, 1930"
- Edith Murry Fluharty, "Find A Grave Index"
- Edith Mae Murray in entry for Baby Stillbirth Fluharty, "District of Columbia Deaths, 1874-1961"
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World Events (8)
1915 · Homemade Bomb Explosion
On July 2, 1915 an angry, former Harvard professor, Erich Muenter, places a homemade bomb in the Senate Reception Room. He was upset about the private sales of US munitions to the allies during the war.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Moray in northeastern Scotland, which derives from Celtic mori- ‘sea’ + treb- ‘settlement’. The founder of the Scottish house of Murray was a Fleming named Freskin who was granted Strathbrock in West Lothian and Duffus in Moray by David I. The family took its name from the region in the late 12th century.
Irish and Scottish: shortened form of McMurray .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muireadhaigh ‘descendant of Muireadhach’ a personal name meaning ‘mariner’. Occasionally it may be a shortened form of McMurray .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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