Brief Life History of Jay Frederick
When Jay Frederick Shelley was born on 16 May 1916, in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, his father, John Franklin Shelley, was 53 and his mother, Linda Marie Gutke, was 27. He married Janet Stiff on 9 August 1943, in Casper, Natrona, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in World in 1960 and Yuma, Arizona, United States in 2003. He registered for military service in 1941. He died on 6 June 2004, in Yuma, Yuma, Arizona, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Jay, Indiana, United States.
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- Jay F Shelly in household of Linda Gutke Shelly, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Jay F Shelley, "California Birth Index, 1905-1995"
- Jay Frederick Shelley, "Arizona, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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World Events (8)
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1918 · Chapman Branch Library
The Chapman Branch Library is a Carnegie library that was built in 1918 and is now is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Shelley (Essex, Suffolk, Yorkshire) or from Shelley Plain in Crawley (Sussex). The placenames all derive from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish (Laois): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Sealbhaigh ‘descendant of Sealbhach’, a byname from the adjective sealbhach ‘having possessions, wealthy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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