Kathryn Elizabeth Sheldon

Female29 September 1913–6 November 1985

Brief Life History of Kathryn Elizabeth

When Kathryn Elizabeth Sheldon was born on 29 September 1913, in Yakima, Yakima, Washington, United States, her father, Louis Stark Sheldon, was 28 and her mother, Gladys Mae NEW, was 27. She married Howard A. Edwards on 18 September 1936, in Benton, Oregon, United States. She lived in Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States for about 10 years. She died on 6 November 1985, in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, at the age of 72.

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Family Time Line

Howard A. Edwards
1913–
Kathryn Elizabeth Sheldon
1913–1985
Marriage: 18 September 1936

Sources (3)

  • Kathryne Sheldon in household of Lewis Sheldon, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Kathryn Elizabeth Sheldon, "Oregon, County Marriages, 1851-1975"
  • Kathryn E Sheldon in household of Louis S Sheldon, "United States Census, 1930"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    18 September 1936Benton, Oregon, United States
  • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (2)

    World Events (8)

    1914

    Age 1

    Outbreak of World War I. New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.

    1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

    Age 3

    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.

    1932

    Age 19

    Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name in most cases from Sheldon in Derbyshire, but sometimes from Sheldon in Warwickshire or Devon, or from Sheldon in Chippenham (Wiltshire). The Derbyshire place, recorded in Domesday Book as Scelhadun, probably takes its name from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + the placename Haddon, itself from Old English hǣth ‘heath’ + dūn ‘hill’. The Warwickshire and Wiltshire placenames probably derive from Old English scelf + dūn, while the Devon placename probably comes from Old English scelf + denu ‘valley’.

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

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