Brief Life History of Gretta Athene
When Gretta Athene Ramsel was born on 12 March 1917, in Winters, Runnels, Texas, United States, her father, Adolph H. Ramsel, was 24 and her mother, Ruth Duncan, was 23. She married Harry Peck Millican on 15 September 1935, in Lampasas, Texas, United States. She lived in Justice Precinct 5, Runnels, Texas, United States in 1930 and Lampasas, Lampasas, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 13 January 1950, in Lampasas, Texas, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Lampasas, Lampasas, Texas, United States.
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- Athene Ramsel in household of Lee Johnson, "United States Census, 1930"
- Ramsel, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
- Athene Ramsel, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
Scottish, English, and Irish (Antrim): habitational name from Ramsey (Huntingdonshire, now part of Cambridgeshire), from Old English hramsa ‘wild garlic’ + ēg ‘island, low-lying land’. Alternatively, the name may also arise from Ramsey (Essex), probably from the same etymology as the Huntingdonshire placename. However, this is unlikely to be the source of the Scottish surname. This form of the surname is also common in Ireland, where it is probably in most if not all cases an altered form of Scottish Ramsay .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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