Brief Life History of Maurine
When Maurine Cash was born on 11 April 1912, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, her father, Bennett Cash, was 24 and her mother, Beatrice Ashworth, was 26. She married William Allen Watts Jr on 3 March 1945. She died on 8 February 1975, in Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Maurene Cash Watts in household of William Watts, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Maurine Cash, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
- Maurine Cash, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
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1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
1915 · Dinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur National Monument is a park that contains over 800 paleontological sites and fossils. It was declared a National Monument on October 4, 1915.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Name Meaning
English (Cheshire and Lancashire): variant of Case , or, alternatively, perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a maker of boxes, from Middle English cashe ‘box, chest to keep wares in’ (Old French casse).
Irish (Tipperary and Wexford): in Ireland, Cash and Cass may derive from the epithet cas ‘curly-haired’, or be a variant of Casey . However, it is more likely to be the English surname.
Americanized form of German Kirch or Kirsch .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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