When Vivian Pearl Sands was born on 7 February 1916, in Kansas, United States, her father, Andrew Edward Sands, was 33 and her mother, Emma Kate Ferrel, was 36. She married Paul Eugene Howes on 29 March 1941, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States. She lived in Cimarron, Gray, Kansas, United States for about 10 years and Denver, Colorado, United States in 1950. She died on 27 April 1985, in Yakima, Washington, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Grandview Cemetery, Grandview, Yakima, Washington, United States.
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U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Fort Lewis military base was established in 1917, in Tacoma, Washington. It was named after Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It used to be one of the largest and most modern military reservations in the US. In February 2010, it merged with McChord Air Force Base.
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English sandes ‘sands’, for someone who lived at or near a sandy place, or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Sands in Carlisle (Cumberland) or Sands Cottages in West Hoathly (Sussex). See Sand , of which Sands may sometimes be a plural form or a variant, with excrescent -s. Compare also Sandes and Sandys .
History: Comfort Sands, a revolutionary patriot born in 1748 at what is now Sands’ Point, Long Island, NY, was descended from James Sand(y)s (1622–95), who emigrated from Reading, Berkshire, England, to Plymouth, MA, and followed Anne Hutchinson to Westchester County, NY, and subsequently RI. In 1661 he settled on Block Island, RI.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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