Mary Godwin

Female4 July 1925–1 December 2013

Brief Life History of Mary

Mary Godwin was born on 4 July 1925. She died on 1 December 2013, in Columbia, Maury, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 88.

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    World Events (3)

    1927

    Age 2

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

    1929

    Age 4

    13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

    1931 · The Parthenon is Built

    Age 6

    In 1931, a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Greece was erected in Nashville, Tennessee. The Parthenon was meant to be temporary, but became a permanent part of Tennessee culture. It also has a replica of the statue of Athena the Goddess of War.At the same time a city over Memphis built  giant pyramid replica to remind everyone what the city was named for. 

    Name Meaning

    English:

    from the common Old English personal name Godwine, a compound of god ‘god’ + wine ‘friend, protector, lord’, which survived the Conquest. Compare Goodwin , with which it has most probably been confused.

    alternatively, the name may occasionally derive from an Old English female personal name Godwynn.

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

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