Brief Life History of Salome Lavaune
When Salome Lavaune Cousin was born on 19 May 1915, in Oakdale, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Wilbert James Cousins, was 45 and her mother, Laura Letti Thompson, was 42. She married Harold Thomas Simms in 1932, in Brooke, West Virginia, United States. She lived in Buffalo District, Brooke, West Virginia, United States in 1940 and Brooke, West Virginia, United States for about 1 years. She died on 1 March 1963, in Wheeling, Ohio, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Beech Bottom, Brooke, West Virginia, United States.
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- Salome L Sims, "United States 1950 Census"
- Salome La Vaune Cousin, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Salome Sims, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"
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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.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Jacques, Emile, Jeanpaul, Serge.
French: nickname from Old French cusin, cosin ‘first cousin’, from Latin consobrinus, used (also) in the sense ‘friend, crony’. Compare with 2.
English: nickname from Middle English cusin, cosin ‘kinsman or cousin’, a borrowing from Old French (see 1 above). The surname would thus have denoted a person related in some way to a prominent figure in the neighborhood. In some cases it may also have been a nickname for someone who used the term cousin frequently as a familiar term of address.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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