Gordon Rex Wardle

Brief Life History of Gordon Rex

When Gordon Rex Wardle was born in 1920, in Twin Groves, Fremont, Idaho, United States, his father, Silas Deroy Wardle, was 44 and his mother, Emeline Orgill, was 42. He died in September 1920, in St. Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, United States, at the age of 0, and was buried in Parker Memorial Park, Parker, Fremont, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Silas Deroy Wardle
1876–1934
Emeline Orgill
1878–1925
Samuel D. "LeRoy" Wardle
1897–1952
Rulen Eugene Wardle
1899–1900
Leslie LaVern Wardle
1900–1976
Levell Delos Wardle
1902–1962
Leah Wardle
1904–1951
Lucille Wardle
1905–1906
Sheldon Nephi Wardle
1907–1984
Catherine Marie Wardle
1911–1939
LeGrand Wardle
1912–1991
Martha Ann Wardle
1914–1975
Lula Wardle
1916–1981
Gordon Rex Wardle
1920–1920

Sources (4)

  • Rex Wardle, "BillionGraves Index"
  • Rex Wardle, "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007"
  • Rex Wardle, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (3)

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

1920

Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.

1920 · The Nineteenth Amendment

The Nineteenth Amendment prohibits the denial of a citizen to vote based on gender. This amendment was created because of the women's suffrage movement and because the Fourteenth Amendment was misinterpreted as saying that right to vote was only for men.

Name Meaning

English:

habitational name from Wardle in Lancashire and possibly Wardle in Cheshire, both named with Old English weard-hyll ‘watch hill’. Compare Warden 2 and Wardlaw .

habitational name from Weardale (Durham), which takes its name from the river Wear (related to the Indo-European root wis-, weis- ‘liquid, flow’ or wedōr- ‘water’) + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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