Brief Life History of Ethel
When Ethel Black was born on 31 March 1918, in Monticello, San Juan, Utah, United States, her father, John Martin Black, was 37 and her mother, Sylvia Evans, was 33. She married Harold Alton Cluff on 10 January 1944, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in San Juan, New Mexico, United States for about 1 years. She died on 18 August 2002, in Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Monroe City Cemetery, Monroe, Sevier, Utah, United States.
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- Ethel Cluff, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ethel Black, "Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964"
- Ethel Black Cluff, "BillionGraves Index"
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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1923 · Oil is Discovered on the Navajo Reservation
Oil was discovered on the Navajo Reservation in the 1920's. The Navajos did not want to lease any of the land towards the exploration for oil and gas. They were soon made a deal that they would be hired for all unskilled work if they would lease the land and, reluctantly, they gave in. Albert Fall, a Senator from New Mexico and was extremely hostile towards Indian rights.
1940 · Roosevelt County Museum Opens
Six years after Eastern New Mexico University opened, the Roosevelt County Museum opened on the campus. The museum exhibits artifacts going back to the time of the early settlers and the Native Americans. It portrays the customs, folklore, technology, and more.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: chiefly from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man. However, Middle English blac also meant ‘pale, wan’, a reflex of Old English blāc ‘pale, white’ with a shortened vowel. Compare Blatch and Blick . With rare exceptions it is impossible to disambiguate these antithetical senses in Middle English surnames. The same difficulty arises with Blake and Block .
Scottish: in Gaelic-speaking areas this name was adopted as a translation of the epithet dubh ‘dark, black-(haired)’, or of various other names based on Gaelic dubh ‘black’, see Duff .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames directly or indirectly derived from the adjective meaning ‘black, dark’, for example German and Jewish Schwarz and Slavic surnames beginning with Čern-, Chern- (see Chern and Cherne ), Chorn-, Crn- or Czern-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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