Jimmy Ray Swinger

Brief Life History of Jimmy Ray

When Jimmy Ray Swinger was born on 27 November 1935, in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Virgil Ray Swinger, was 30 and his mother, Nina Margaret Wingard, was 24. He married Jean Elizabeth Hipp on 16 April 1955, in Winchester, Virginia, United States. He lived in Stonycreek Township, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940 and Stonycreek, Stonycreek Township, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. He died on 4 May 2007, in United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Geistown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Jimmy Ray Swinger
1935–2007
Jean Elizabeth Hipp
1936–2004
Marriage: 16 April 1955

Sources (9)

  • Jimmy R Swinger, "United States 1950 Census"
  • James Ray Swinger, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
  • Jimmie R. Swinger, "Find A Grave Index"

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1937 · The Neutrality Act

The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins

The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name, perhaps for a fuller, who finished cloth by beating it and stretching it on tenters. Middle English swyngere is not independently recorded but it appears to be an agent derivative of Middle English swingen ‘to beat, strike, punish, afflict (something)’. Compare the synonymous Tucker , an agent derivative of Middle English tuken ‘to torment, beat’. The earliest bearers of the name Swinger were wealthy townsmen.

In some instances probably an Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schwinger , or German Zwinger, a nickname from Middle High German zwinger ‘oppressor’.

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

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