Brief Life History of Mary Elizabetth
When Mary Elizabetth Kerr was born on 6 September 1917, in Gastonville, Union Township, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, James Jamison Kerr, was 37 and her mother, Margaret Elizabeth Wilson, was 32. She married Roy Emerson Hancock on 4 February 1939, in Allegheny Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. She lived in Finleyville, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years. She died on 11 August 1999, in Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in First Presbyterian Church, Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, United States.
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- Mary E Hancock in household of Roy E Hancock, "United States Census, 1940"
- Mary Elizabeth Kerr, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- Mary Kerr Hancock, "Pennsylvania, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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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.
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or swampy woodland, Middle English kerr ‘brushwood, wet ground’ (Old Norse kjarr). A legend grew up that the Kerrs were left-handed, on theory that the name is derived from Gaelic cearr ‘wrong-handed, left-handed’.
Irish: variant of Carr .
Americanized form of German Kehr or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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