Brief Life History of Roberta Susan
When Roberta Susan Cowley was born on 3 January 1927, in Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri, United States, her father, Arthur Bernard Cowley, was 34 and her mother, Leonilla Tellman, was 37. She married George Wesley Selvidge in 1949, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in United States in 1949 and Lebanon, Laclede, Missouri, United States in 1950. She died on 1 April 2003, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Resurrection Cemetery and Mausoleum, Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri, United States.
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- Roberta S Selvidge, "United States Census, 1950"
- Roberta Cowley Selvidge, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Roberta C Selvidge, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1947 · The Presidential Succession Act
The Presidential Succession Act is an act establishing the presidential line of succession. This was a precursor for the Twenty-fifth Amendment which outlines what is to happen when a President is killed, dies, or is unable to fulfill the responsibilities of President.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Cowley. One in Gloucestershire is named with Old English cū ‘cow’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’; two in Derbyshire have Old English col ‘(char)coal’ as the first element; and one near London is from Old English cofa ‘shelter, bay’ (see Cove ) or the personal name Cofa. The largest group, however, with examples in Buckinghamshire, Devon, Oxfordshire, and Staffordshire, were apparently named as ‘the wood or clearing of Cufa’; however, in view of the number of places called with this element, it is possible that it conceals a topographic term as well as a personal name.
Irish: shortened form of Macaulay (see McCauley ).
Manx: shortened form of Gaelic Mac Amhlaoibh ‘son of Amhlaoibh’ (a Gaelicized form of Old Norse Óláfr). For an alternative Manx form of the same patronymic see Callow .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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