Vernetta McMillan

Brief Life History of Vernetta

When Vernetta McMillan was born on 21 February 1924, in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Newel Daniel McMillan, was 26 and her mother, Mary Cheever, was 19. She married Clain Chesleigh Erekson on 26 September 1942, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in United States in 1949. She died on 13 September 2004, in Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Murray Cemetery, Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Clain Chesleigh Erekson
1923–1985
Vernetta McMillan
1924–2004
Marriage: 26 September 1942
Janet Irene Erekson
1943–2013
Michael Tid Erekson
1945–2020
Terry Dale Erekson
1948–2023
Darrel Ray Erekson
1951–2013

Sources (17)

  • Vernetta M Erikson, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Vernetta M Erekson, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
  • Vernetta McMillan Erekson, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1927 · Land Covered in Dinosaur Fossils

The quarry was originally found by sheepherders and cattlemen as they drove their animals through the area. The Department of Geology at the University of Utah soon visited the area and found 800 fossils of a variety of Dinosaurs from the Jurassic Era. Because of the proximity of the site to Cleveland, Utah, and because most of the expeditions were financed by Malcolm Lloyd, the site was later known as the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry. In later years, Princeton college spent three summers at the site. They collected a total of 1,200 bones, part of which were sent back to the school and mounted to complete a full skeleton of an Allosaurus, Utah’s State Fossil. Over the years, excavations led to the collection of more than 12,000 fossils from the quarry. It was designated as a National Natural Landmark in 1965.

1945 · Peace in a Post War World

The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.

Name Meaning

Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Maoláin, a patronymic from the byname Maolán, a diminutive of maol ‘bald, tonsured’. In Scotland the usual form is Macmillan . Compare the Irish Anglicized form McMullan and Mullen 1.

History: This is the name of a Scottish clan traditionally associated with lands in Knapdale, Argyll. Tradition has it that they are descended from a married priest or tonsured lay abbot called Gille Chriosd (‘servant of Christ’), who lived in the 12th century.

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

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