Brief Life History of Ruby Sue
When Ruby Sue Baker was born on 18 July 1939, in Dawson, Navarro, Texas, United States, her father, Daniel Willis Baker, was 47 and her mother, Ida Kate Lawler, was 35. She married Walter Jules Martin on 6 August 1966, in Dallas, Texas, United States. She lived in Justice Precinct 4, Dawson, Texas, United States in 1940.
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- Ruby S Baker in household of Lawrence B Lawler, "United States Census, 1940"
- Ruby Sue Baker, "Texas Births and Christenings, 1840-1981"
- Ruby Sue Baker Clark, "Texas Marriages, 1966-2010"
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1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1949 · 1950s Texas Drought
One of most intense, costly, and devastating droughts ever recorded in the state of Texas. The entire state was in a state of drought by the summer of 1951. Less than 30-50% of the normal rainfall was received during this period. The state was plagued with dust storms similar to those from the infamous Dust Bowl. The drought ended in a destructive manner throughout 1957; storms, hail, tornadoes, and deadly floods.
1971 · The Twenty-Sixth Amendment
The Twenty-sixth Amendment prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens who are eighteen years old or older.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name, from Middle English bakere, Old English bæcere, a derivative of bacan ‘to bake’. It may have been used for someone whose special task in the kitchen of a great house or castle was the baking of bread, but since most humbler households did their own baking in the Middle Ages, it may also have referred to the owner of a communal oven used by the whole village. The right to be in charge of this and exact money or loaves in return for its use was in many parts of the country a hereditary feudal privilege. Compare Miller . Less often the surname may have been acquired by someone noted for baking particularly fine bread or by a baker of pottery or bricks.
Americanized form (translation into English) of surnames meaning ‘baker’, for example Dutch Bakker , German Becker and Beck , French Boulanger and Bélanger (see Belanger ), Czech Pekař, Slovak Pekár, and Croatian Pekar .
History: Baker was established as an early immigrant surname in Puritan New England. Among others, two men called Remember Baker (father and son) lived at Woodbury, CT, in the early 17th century, and an Alexander Baker arrived in Boston, MA, in 1635.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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