Brief Life History of Orl Frank
When Orl Frank Belt was born on 18 June 1877, in Pleasantville, Marion, Iowa, United States, his father, Edward Lorenzo Belt, was 31 and his mother, Caroline Maryland Jessee, was 29. He married Ida Eleanor Short in 1919, in Missouri, United States. He lived in Prairie Township, Jackson, Missouri, United States for about 5 years and Lees Summit, Jackson, Missouri, United States for about 1 years. He died on 19 July 1960, in Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Lees Summit, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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- Oral F Belt, "United States Census, 1920"
- Orl French Belt, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
- Orl F Belt, "BillionGraves Index"
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1879
Historical Boundaries: 1879: Marion, Iowa, United States
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English and North German: metonymic occupational name for a leather belt or strap maker or a nickname for someone who wore a distinctive belt, from Middle English belt ‘belt, girdle’ (Old English belt), Middle Low German balt.
German: from a short form of the ancient Germanic personal name Baldher (see Belter ).
North German: habitational name from a place called Beelte (see Belter 2).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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