Brief Life History of Myrtle Helen
When Myrtle Helen Johns was born on 17 February 1900, in Carroll, Arkansas, United States, her father, Henry Evan Johns, was 39 and her mother, Harriet Elizabeth Bowman, was 42. She married Frank Hoda Lankford on 4 May 1917, in Buchanan, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in United States in 1949 and Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States in 1950. She died on 29 August 1963, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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- Myrtle H Lankford, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mrytle Helen Johns - Government record: Census record: birth: 17 February 1900; Carroll, Arkansas, United States
- Myrtle Johns, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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World Events (8)
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
1904 · William H. Fuller Grows 70 Acres of Rice
Rice is one Arkansas leading crops, in 1904 William H. Fuller planted 70 acres of rice, this act is what started the making rice the leading crop in Arkansas.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: variant of John with genitival or excrescent -s, or a variant of Jones . It is common in Cornwall and Devon, south Wales, the West Midlands and Lancashire. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, such as Albanian Gjonaj or any other Albanian patronymic from the personal name Gjon ‘John’ and its variants or derivatives; see also examples at Johnson .
German: patronymic from John or a shortened form of Johannes .
Americanized form of Swiss German Schantz .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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