Brief Life History of Alice
When Alice Daigrepont was born on 28 September 1917, her father, Leonard Daigrepont, was 29 and her mother, Irene Laborde, was 25. She died on 24 December 2011, in Hessmer, Avoyelles, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Hessmer, Avoyelles, Louisiana, United States.
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Sources (4)
- Alice Daigrepont in household of Alcea Dauzat, "United States Census, 1920"
- Alice D Dauzat, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Alice Dauzat, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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World Events (8)
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
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
French: habitational name, with fused preposition d(e) ‘from’, denoting someone from Aigrepont, a place in Allier. This surname is not found in France.
History: Jean-Jacques Vernin d'Aigrepont from Moulins in Allier married Eugénie Vitrac in False River, LA, in 1815. The habitational name Daigrepont was first adopted as a sole surname by his son Pierre (born 1819).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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