Brief Life History of Delores
Delores Letcher Smith was born in 1920, in Blandburg, Reade Township, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States. She had at least 1 son with John Smith. She died in 1991, in Wellsburg, Brooke, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 71.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Dolores Letcher, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Ellen D Letcher in entry for J T Smith, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1920
Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English lecher, lechour, lichour ‘physician’, a derivative of the verb lechen, lichen ‘to cure, treat with medicines’.
English: nickname from Middle English lech(o)ur, lecher, lichour ‘debauchee, glutton, rake, lecher, paramour’ (Old French lecheor).
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream or wet place, Middle English leche, lache + -er. This type of name is found mainly in the most southerly English counties, especially Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex. Compare Leachman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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