Brief Life History of Margaret Marie
When Margaret Marie Oakes was born on 2 September 1940, in Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States, her father, William Henry Oakes, was 60 and her mother, Ruth Ann Gibson, was 37. She married Billy Lee McGuire on 10 July 1959, in Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Callands District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States in 1950. She died on 16 October 1997, in Danville, Virginia, United States, at the age of 57.
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Sources (4)
- Maria Oakes, "United States 1950 Census"
- Margaret Marie Oakes, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
- Marie Oakes in entry for Barry O'Niel McGuire and Melanee Jean Brown, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
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World Events (8)
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1941 · Pentagon is Built in Arlington
The Pentagon was developed as the Department of Defense had outgrown the other buildings were it was previous located.The groundbreaking for the Pentagon was on September 11, 1941. When the Pentagon was being built, it was determined that it could be no taller than four stories high. Colonel Leslie R. Groves was the supervisor of the project, he would later become known for helping on the Manhattan Project.
1956 · The Federal Aid Highway Act
With the construction of 41,000 miles of the Interstate Highway System, the Federal Aid Highway Act made way for the largest public works project in American history at that time. One of the purposes was to provide military access to places in case of an attack.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name, a variant of Oak with either an original plural -s or an excescent -s added later to the surname.
Irish (Louth, Wexford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dubhdara ‘son of Dubhdara’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘dark’ + dara(ch), genitive of dair ‘oak’, by translation of the main element of the Gaelic name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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