Catherine Genevieve Elward

Brief Life History of Catherine Genevieve

When Catherine Genevieve Elward was born on 26 August 1918, in Lagro, Lagro Township, Wabash, Indiana, United States, her father, Richard Francis Elward, was 45 and her mother, Mary Genevieve Noonan, was 34. She married George A Fishback on 2 June 1942, in Wabash, Noble Township, Wabash, Indiana, United States. She lived in Lagro Township, Wabash, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died on 15 April 2002, in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Wabash, Noble Township, Wabash, Indiana, United States.

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George A Fishback
1914–1984
Catherine Genevieve Elward
1918–2002
Marriage: 2 June 1942

Sources (10)

  • Katherine Elward in household of Frank Elward, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Catherine Genevieve Elward, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
  • Catherine G Fishback, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English (Glamorgan): variant of Aylward or Alward .

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

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