Chester Allen Wallis

Male28 January 1901–24 April 1979

Brief Life History of Chester Allen

When Chester Allen Wallis was born on 28 January 1901, in Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, David Allen Ellis Wallis, was 46 and his mother, Myrtella Evelyn Corbin, was 24. He married Marion Eliza Lapham in 1933, in Hopedale, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1901 and Douglas, Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1950. He died on 24 April 1979, in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

Chester Allen Wallis
1901–1979
Marion Eliza Lapham
1910–1998
Marriage: 1933
Robert Eugene Wallis
1938–2013

Sources (14)

  • Chester Wallis in household of Mystie Wallis, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Chester A Wallis, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Chester A Wallis, "Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1933Hopedale, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
  • Children (1)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (3)

    World Events (8)

    1902 · So Much Farm Land

    Age 1

    A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.

    1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

    Age 2

    A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

    1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

    Age 22

    Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

    Name Meaning

    Scottish and English: from Anglo-Norman French Waleis, Walais ‘Welshman’, also sometimes ‘Breton’ (from Old English wēalas, walas, plural of walh, wealh, originally meaning a ‘Roman citizen’ and referring to the native British population, but in Old English this term later came to mean ‘serf, unfree person, foreigner’ or ‘Welshman’). In western and central England the medieval reference is clearly to Welshmen. In Norfolk and Lincolnshire, the reference was probably to Bretons, many of whom settled in the eastern counties after the Conquest. Compare Welsh , Walsh . The idea that the Scottish surname refers to the Welsh-speaking Britons of Strathclyde is erroneous.

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

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