Nancy Wall

Brief Life History of Nancy

When Nancy Wall was born in 1921, in Rockingham, North Carolina, United States, her father, Robert Ernest Wall, Sr., was 47 and her mother, Ethel Alma Wiles, was 31. She married Bernard Bertram Klawans on 2 April 1949, in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. She lived in Leaksville Township, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States in 1940 and Hampton, Virginia, United States in 1955. She died on 25 September 1999, at the age of 78, and was buried in Hebrew Friendship Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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Bernard Bertram Klawans
1921–2011
Nancy Wall
1921–1999
Marriage: 2 April 1949

Sources (9)

  • Nancy Wall in household of R E Wall, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Nancy Wall, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
  • Mrs B Clawans im Eintrag für Robert Ernest Wall, „United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011“

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World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1941 · Pentagon is Built in Arlington

The Pentagon was developed as the Department of Defense had outgrown the other buildings were it was previous located.The groundbreaking for the Pentagon was on September 11, 1941. When the Pentagon was being built, it was determined that it could be no taller than four stories high. Colonel Leslie R. Groves was the supervisor of the project, he would later become known for helping on the Manhattan Project.

1942 · The Japanese American internment

Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stone-built wall, e.g. one used to fortify a town or to keep back the encroachment of the sea (Middle English wall ‘wall’, Old English wall, weall, from Latin vallum ‘rampart, palisade’), or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Wall (Staffordshire).

English (West Midlands): topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or stream, northern Middle English wall(e) (Old English (Mercian) wæll(a); compare Well ).

Irish (of Norman origin): Anglicized form of de Valle (Gaelicized form de Bhál), the name of a Norman family established in Munster and Connacht.

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

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