When Farrel Jay Francom was born on 3 July 1919, in Elwood, Box Elder, Utah, United States, his father, Joseph William Francom, was 49 and his mother, Mary Ann Cole, was 48. He married Helen Tillotson on 14 March 1945, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Ellensburg, Kittitas, Washington, United States in 1950 and World for about 5 years. He died on 5 February 1996, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Tremonton, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge is a 74,000 acre refuge of open water and wetlands which hosts millions of migratory birds each year. The refuge was opened in 1928 on the Bear River Delta which flows into the Great Salt Lake.
Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.
English (of Norman origin): status name from the Anglo-Norman French feudal term franchomme ‘free man’ (see Free ), composed of the elements franc, fraunc ‘free’ + homme ‘man’ (from Latin homo). The spelling has been altered as the result of folk etymological association with the common English placename endings -combe and -ham. See Frank 2.
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