Wilma Bernice Holloway

Brief Life History of Wilma Bernice

When Wilma Bernice Holloway was born on 26 April 1913, in Crab Orchard, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States, her father, Samuel Holloway I, was 29 and her mother, Hattie S. Sherrill, was 29. She married Charles Frederick Elmore on 8 December 1935, in Cumberland, Tennessee, United States. She lived in Civil District 1, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States in 1940 and Red Bank, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States for about 1 years. She died on 4 January 2003, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Chattanooga National Cemetery, Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States.

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Charles Frederick Elmore
1914–1971
Wilma Bernice Holloway
1913–2003
Marriage: 8 December 1935

Sources (11)

  • Wilma H Elmore, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Wilma Holloway, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Wilma B Elmore, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

1931 · The Parthenon is Built

In 1931, a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Greece was erected in Nashville, Tennessee. The Parthenon was meant to be temporary, but became a permanent part of Tennessee culture. It also has a replica of the statue of Athena the Goddess of War.At the same time a city over Memphis built  giant pyramid replica to remind everyone what the city was named for. 

1937 · The Neutrality Act

The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) sunken road’, from Middle English hol(g)h ‘hollow’ + weie ‘way, road’ (Old English holh + weg), or else a habitational name from any of numerous places so named, such as Holloway (Middlesex) or Holway (Somerset). In Ireland (Leinster), the name has sometimes been Gaelicized as Ó hAilmhic (see Hulvey ).

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

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