Brief Life History of Martha Ruth
When Martha Ruth Dill was born on 23 April 1943, in South Carolina, United States, her father, William Horace Dill, was 22 and her mother, Mary Ruth Wilson, was 21. She married Robert Franklin Moore on 11 June 1966, in South Carolina, United States. She died on 7 May 2003, in Newberry, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 60.
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- Martha Moore, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Martha D Moore in entry for Mr Graham E Hart, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
- Martha Ruth Dill, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
1949 · Briggs vs. Elliot
Briggs v Elliot is filed with the federal court in South Carolina. The idea is that parents of African American students want bus transportation for their students. This request is later combined with Brown v the Board of Education case.
1960
Squaw Valley, California, United States hosts Winter Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
German: from a pet form of the personal name Dietrich .
German: metonymic occupational name for a sawyer, from Middle High German dill(e) ‘(floor)board’.
German: habitational name from Dill (Rhineland-Palatinate) or Dille (Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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