Brief Life History of Elva Lucille
When Elva Lucille Davis was born on 2 March 1915, in Yakima, Yakima, Washington, United States, her father, Arthur Elich Davis, was 27 and her mother, Mamie Lusby, was 27. She married Leighton Armstrong on 20 May 1937, in Kittitas, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in United States in 1949 and Klickitat, Klickitat, Washington, United States in 1950. She died on 26 February 2006, in White Salmon, Klickitat, Washington, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Yakima, Yakima, Washington, United States.
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- Lucile Armstrong, "United States Census, 1950"
- Eva May Davis, "Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965"
- Lucille Davis, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1916 · Boeing Aircraft
The Boeing Aircraft was named and created by William Boeing. The first two planes were Bluebill and Mallard and the first flight was July 15, 1916. Boeing aircrafts made their debut during WWI.
1940
Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .
History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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