Brief Life History of Ola Mae
When Ola Mae Gilmore was born on 9 March 1916, her father, Wallace Gilmore, was 50 and her mother, Candis Ann Jones, was 37. She married Julius Woodrow Brown on 31 January 1933, in Brownsville, Cameron, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Justice Precinct 2, Lavaca, Texas, United States in 1920. She died on 13 August 1979, in McAllen, Hidalgo, Texas, United States, at the age of 63.
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- Ola May Gilmore in household of Wally Gilmore, "United States Census, 1930"
- Texas, Select County Marriage Records, 1837-2015
- Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
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World Events (8)
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1929 · The Great Depression Arrives
Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.
1935 · The FBI is Established
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish (Ulster and Galway): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Mhoire (Scots), Mac Giolla Mhuire (Irish), patronymics from personal names meaning ‘servant (i.e. devotee) of (the Virgin) Mary’.
Irish: in Sligo, shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhir ‘son of the spirited lad’.
English: habitational name from Gillamoor in Rydale (North Yorkshire), from Old English Gedling (‘place called after Gētla’, from the Old English personal name Gētla + the connective particle -ing) + mōr ‘moor’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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