Brief Life History of Dora Jean
When Dora Jean Cross was born on 3 April 1925, in Mayfield, Graves, Kentucky, United States, her father, Norman C Cross, was 20 and her mother, Eva Hazel Pullen, was 20. She married Stuart Woods McCollom in 1944, in Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Magisterial District 6, Graves, Kentucky, United States in 1940 and Ardmore, Carter, Oklahoma, United States in 1950. She died on 7 September 2009, in Bethany, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Hillcrest Memorial Park, Ardmore, Carter, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Jeanice McCollom, "United States 1950 Census"
- Dora Jean Mccollom, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Dora Jean Cross, "Florida Marriages, 1830-1993"
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1926 · Mammoth Cave is Discovered
In 1926, in central Kentucky, Mammoth Cave was discovered. It dates back to Mississippian times and consists of over four hundred miles of passageway. On July 1, 1941, the cave was made a National Park.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1947 · The Presidential Succession Act
The Presidential Succession Act is an act establishing the presidential line of succession. This was a precursor for the Twenty-fifth Amendment which outlines what is to happen when a President is killed, dies, or is unable to fulfill the responsibilities of President.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a cross, such as one set up by the roadside or in a marketplace, from Middle English cros (Old English cros and Old Norse kross, ultimately from Latin crux, crucem). It is commonly Latinized in medieval records as ad crucem and de Cruce but examples of this can just as well belong to the synonymous but less common name Crouch . In a few cases the surname may have been given originally to someone who lived by a crossroads, but this sense of the word seems to have been a comparatively late development. In other cases, the surname (and its European cognates; see 3 below) may have denoted someone who carried the cross in processions of the Christian Church, but in English at least the usual word for this sense was Crozier .
Irish: shortened form of McCrossen .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cross’ or ‘the cross’, such as French Lacroix , German Kreutz , and Slovenian and Croatian Križ (see Kriz ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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