Brief Life History of Clyde Merit
When Clyde Merit Croft was born on 1 March 1922, in California, United States, her father, Waco Kelley Croft, was 37 and her mother, Stella Naomi Hargrove, was 32. She married Cleborn Appier on 22 September 1939, in Clark, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 3 February 2007, in Beaumont, Riverside, California, United States, at the age of 84.
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- 1950 United States Federal Census
- Legacy NFS Source: Clyde Merritt Croft - Individual or family possessions: birth:
- Clyde M Shockley, "Nevada County Marriages, 1862-1993"
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places, for example in Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Herefordshire, and North Yorkshire, all named with Old English croft ‘small arable enclosure (normally adjoining a house)’, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a croft, from Middle English croft.
English: possibly in some cases a variant of Craft 2.
Americanized form of German, Danish, Swedish, or Jewish Kraft . Compare Kroft and Craft .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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