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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- 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"
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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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