Brief Life History of Wilma M
When Wilma M Padgett was born on 19 November 1924, in Indiana, United States, her father, Leland Daple Padgett, was 24 and her mother, Hazel Clestine Johnson, was 20. She married William Malachi Porter on 19 December 1948, in Greene, Indiana, United States. She lived in Loogootee, Perry Township, Martin, Indiana, United States in 1935 and Bloomfield Township, LaGrange, Indiana, United States in 1948. She died on 22 December 2003, in Bloomfield, Richland Township, Greene, Indiana, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Park, Richland Township, Greene, Indiana, United States.
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Sources (9)
- Wilma Padgett in household of Leland D Padgett, "United States Census, 1930"
- Wilma M Padgett Porter, "Find A Grave Index"
- Wilma Mae Padgett in entry for William Malachi Porter, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Yorkshire): from a Middle English diminutive of page, paige ‘servant, groom’ (see Page ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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