John Lee Marlow

Brief Life History of John Lee

When John Lee Marlow was born on 22 October 1938, in Duff, Campbell, Tennessee, United States, his father, French Marlow, was 44 and his mother, Martha Evans, was 34. He married Violet Darlene Wilson on 7 October 1978, in Campbell, Tennessee, United States. He died on 18 June 2004, in La Follette, Campbell, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in White Oak, Campbell, Tennessee, United States.

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John Lee Marlow
1938–2004
Violet Darlene Wilson
1947–2014
Marriage: 7 October 1978

Sources (11)

  • Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964
  • John Leo Marlow, "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
  • U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947

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World Events (8)

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

1942 · Atomic Energy Plant at Oak Ridge

The atomic energy plant that was built in Oak RIdge, Tennessee. The land was acquired secretly by the government in order to help with the Manhattan Project. The Uranium for the project was housed in the facility.

1956 · The Federal Aid Highway Act

With the construction of 41,000 miles of the Interstate Highway System, the Federal Aid Highway Act made way for the largest public works project in American history at that time. One of the purposes was to provide military access to places in case of an attack.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from the place in Buckinghamshire on the Thames, named in Old English with mere ‘lake, pool’ + lāfe ‘remnants, leavings’, i.e. a boggy area remaining after a lake had been drained. There has been some confusion with Marley .

Americanized form of French Canadian Marleau .

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

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