May Pike

Brief Life History of May

When May Pike was born on 10 June 1898, in Oak Creek Township, Butler, Nebraska, United States, her father, Frank Pike, was 28 and her mother, Minnie C West, was 23. She married Clyde E. Butler on 22 May 1924, in Sedgwick, Colorado, United States. She died on 15 May 1985, in Ainsworth, Brown, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Ainsworth, Brown, Nebraska, United States.

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Clyde E. Butler
1890–
May Pike
1898–1985
Marriage: 22 May 1924

Sources (9)

  • Mae Butler in household of Clyde E Butler, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Mae Pike, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006"
  • Mae Pike Butler, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome

A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

Name Meaning

English: nickname, perhaps for a fisherman whose physique resembled that of a pike. One Londoner so named in 1292 was a fishmonger.

English: metonymic occupational name for a user of a pointed tool, perhaps a laborer or military pikeman, from Middle English pike ‘pike, pickaxe, pitchfork’. Compare Pick .

English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pic (Old English Pica, Old Norse Pík), of uncertain origin but perhaps from one of the words mentioned above.

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

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