Brief Life History of Mary Lois
When Mary Lois Andrews was born on 14 March 1912, in Bates, Teton, Idaho, United States, her father, Henry Alonzo Andrews, was 33 and her mother, Lucy Percinda Wood, was 35. She married William Ferrel Thomas on 11 October 1940, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Pinedale, Sublette, Wyoming, United States in 1935 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 1 June 2011, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 99, and was buried in Bountiful Memorial Park, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Mary Lois Thomas in household of William Ferrel Thomas, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Mary Lois Andrews, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Lois A Thomas, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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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.
1938 · The DI is Opened To The Public
Deseret Industries is a non-profit organization and a division of Welfare Services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It includes a chain of retail thrift stores and work projects. Many of the items sold are second hand or never used. Such items include furniture, appliances, computers, and clothing. The DI also sells new furniture, much of it received directly from its own manufacturing plant in Salt Lake City. The DI provides job skill training for the physically, emotionally and socially challenged and seeks to place them into private sector employment.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Andrew , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Andrzejewski , Slovenian Andrejčič, Serbian and Croatian Andrić (see Andric ), and Czech Ondráček (see Ondracek ).
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis or Irish Mac Aindriú, see McAndrew .
History: This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport's company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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