Brief Life History of Willard Roy
When Willard Roy Howell was born on 22 May 1930, in Potts Camp, Marshall, Mississippi, United States, his father, Lee Roy Howell, was 31 and his mother, Bessie Marie Smith, was 28. He lived in Hector Township, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years and Russellville, Fayette, West Virginia, United States in 1984. He died on 7 April 1998, in Atkins, Pope, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Crossroads Cemetery, Appleton, Conway, Arkansas, United States.
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- Willard Howell, "United States Census, 1950"
- Willard Howell, "Find A Grave Index"
- Willard Howell, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1939 · First Oil Well in Mississippi Located in Yazoo County
Fredric F. Mellen was a geologist that was surveyed a clay and minerals project. While doing this he instead struck oil and started the oil industry in Mississippi.
1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War
The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.
Name Meaning
Welsh and English: in the Welsh border counties, from the Welsh male personal name Hywel ‘eminent’, popular since the Middle Ages particularly in honor of the great 10th-century law-giving Welsh king. The name may also arise from the Breton personal name Houuel, Huwel, Huwal, Howael, cognate with the Welsh name. Bretons were especially numerous in the eastern counties of England. See Powell .
English: perhaps from a Middle English personal name Huwel (spelled Howel), a shortening of Huwelot or Huelin (see Hewlett and Huling ), both pet forms of Middle English Huw (see Hugh ).
English: habitational name from Howell (Lincolnshire), from an uncertain initial element + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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