When William Fay Bundy was born on 12 February 1916, in Kaolin, Clark, Nevada, United States, his father, James Bundy, was 28 and his mother, Chloe Geneva Van Leuven, was 27. He married Eliza Nelson on 7 June 1941, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. He lived in Mount Trumbull, Mohave, Arizona, United States for about 10 years and St. George, Washington, Utah, United States for about 12 years. In 1967, at the age of 51, his occupation is listed as cement mason in Redding, Shasta, California, United States. He died on 3 October 2015, in Washington, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 99, and was buried in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States.
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U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
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.
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
variant of Bond , either from Middle English bonde, bounde ‘customary tenant’ where the final -e has developed in local speech to -y, or occasionally from the Old Norse Bondi, where final -i has survived.
alternatively, a variant of Bandy .
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