Myrtle Marie Salisbury

Brief Life History of Myrtle Marie

When Myrtle Marie Salisbury was born on 27 January 1917, in Alturas, Modoc, California, United States, her father, Oliver Weller Salisbury, was 29 and her mother, Georgia Myrtle Williams, was 26. She married Thomas Almont Wharton Sr on 24 November 1934, in Reno, Washoe, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Westwood Judicial Township, Lassen, California, United States in 1940 and Westwood, Lassen, California, United States in 1950. She died on 10 January 2001, in Chester, Plumas, California, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Chester, Plumas, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Almont Wharton Sr
1915–1982
Myrtle Marie Salisbury
1917–2001
Marriage: 24 November 1934
Georgie Marie Wharton
1936–1998
Thomas Almont Wharton Jr
1937–2017
Ronald Wayne Wharton
1940–2004
Robert Lee Wharton
1945–2020

Sources (17)

  • Myrtle M Wharton, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Myrtle Wharton, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Myrtle M Salisbury in entry for Georgie Mar Timmins, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

World Events (8)

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary

Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963. 

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English (Lancashire): habitational name primarily from Salesbury in Blackburn (Lancashire) but also occasionally from Salisbury (Wiltshire). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English salh ‘willow, sallow’ + burg ‘fortress’, while the Wiltshire placename arises from a shortened form of the Celtic placename Sorviodunum (from an unknown initial element + Celtic dūno- ‘fort’). In the Old English period the second element was dropped and Sorvio- (of unexplained etymology) became Searo- in Old English as the result of folk etymological association the Old English word searu ‘trick’; to this an explanatory burh ‘fortress, manor, town’ was added. The city is recorded in the Domesday Book as Sarisberie; the change of -r- to -l- is the result of later dissimilation.

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

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