Brief Life History of Shirley Ann
When Shirley Ann Jernigan was born on 7 December 1939, in Blue Mountain, Tippah, Mississippi, United States, her father, Herman Sanders Jernigan, was 40 and her mother, Florence Irene Wood, was 23. She lived in Augusta, Richmond, Georgia, United States in 1940. She died on 19 November 2003, in Sage, Izard, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Izard, Arkansas, United States.
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- Shirley Anne Jernigan in household of Edwin C Foster, "United States Census, 1940"
- Arkansas, Marriage Certificates, 1917-1969
- Shirley Ann Jernigan Jennings, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1940 · The Lock and Dam System is Completed
A lock and dam system is a system that allows boats to go from one water level to another either up or down and the boats continue going through each until they get to the end. There are 29 on the Mississippi River.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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 (Suffolk): of uncertain origin. Reaney believes it to be of Breton origin, probably identical with the Old Breton personal name Iarnuuocon ‘iron famous’, taken to East Anglia by Bretons at the time of the Norman Conquest. Compare Journigan .
History: Thomas Jernigan was granted land at Somerton, VA, in 1668. Many of his descendants were sea captains. His son, also called Thomas, settled on Martha's Vineyard, MA, in 1712.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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