When Elsie Lee Strickland was born on 1 October 1921, in Texas, United States, her father, Julius Merrill Strickland, was 31 and her mother, Velmer Lee "Velma" Farquhar, was 29. She married Alfred Paul Grand on 19 August 1959, in Anson, Jones, Texas, United States. She lived in Justice Precinct 4, Denton, Texas, United States in 1940 and Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 23 June 1996, in Haskell, Haskell, Texas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Weinert Cemetery, Weinert, Haskell, Texas, United States.
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Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
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.
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English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Great and Little Strickland (Westmorland) or Strickland Ketel and Strickland Roger (also Westmorland). The placenames derive from Old English stīrc ‘stirk, young bullock or heifer’ + land ‘land’.
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