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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- 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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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 Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.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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