Verna Estelle Woods

Brief Life History of Verna Estelle

When Verna Estelle Woods was born on 14 August 1903, in Glenraven, Robertson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Lenzy Lue Woods, was 30 and her mother, Louisa Frances Wiggleton, was 19. She married Robert Thomas Kirklin on 4 October 1918, in Adams, Robertson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in United States in 1910 and Englewood, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States in 1930. She died on 12 August 1998, in Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Littleton, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Thomas Kirklin
1898–1965
Verna Estelle Woods
1903–1998
Marriage: 4 October 1918
James Edward Kirklin
1921–2013
Geneva Urie Kirklin
1924–1993
George William Kirklin
1927–2008
Donald Roscoe Kirklin
1930–2001
Bertha Juanita Kirklin
1933–1945
Mary Louise Kirklin
1934–2023
Geraldine "Jeri" Kirklin
1939–2021

Sources (20)

  • Verna Estelle Woods, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Verner Woods, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Verna E. Kirklin, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

1909 · Garden of the Gods Park

In 1879, railroad tycoon, Charles Elliott Perkins bought 240 acres whrere The Garden of the Gods is located, and planned to use it as a summer home. Perkins died in 1907 before he could establish it as a public park. Perkin's children donated the now 480 acres to the city of Colorado Springs, to become a public park.

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: variant of Wood with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.

Irish: adopted as a translation of Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’ (see Quill ), or in Ulster of Mac Con Coille ‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’, which has also been mistranslated Cox , as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.

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

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