Brief Life History of Ellis Elwood
When Ellis Elwood Frable Jr was born on 16 May 1926, in Bethlehem, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Ellis Elwood Fabel, was 19 and his mother, Edith May Hartzell, was 20. He lived in Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States in 1935 and Bethlehem Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. He died on 2 March 2014, in Bethlehem, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Bethlehem, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Sources (6)
- Ellis E Frable Jr. in household of Ellis E Frable Sr., "United States Census, 1930"
- Ellis Elwood Frable, "Find A Grave Index"
- Ellis E Frable Jr, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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.
1949 · NATO is Established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The agreement of the alliance is to help defend each other if attacked by an external country. The last country to enter was Montenegro in 2017.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Fräbel: nickname from Middle Low German vrevel ‘brave, bold’, later ‘impudent, heinous’, or a topographic name from a field named Fräbel.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Fröbel (see Froebel ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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