Brief Life History of Carolyn Sherman
When Carolyn Sherman Packard was born on 2 October 1921, in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Fabyan Packard, was 31 and her mother, Edna Newhall Sypher, was 29. She lived in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1930 and Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States in 1979. She died on 4 September 2007, in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Newton Cemetery, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Carolyn S Packard in household of Faybian Packard, "United States Census, 1930"
- Carolyn Sherman Packard, "Massachusetts, Births, 1636-1924"
- Carolyn Sherman Marshall, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1922 · Women Granted the Right to Vote
The 19th Amendment, which allowed women the right to vote, was passed and became federal law on August 26, 1920. Georgia law prevented women from voting until 1922. The amendment wasn’t officially ratified until 1970.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English pak(e) ‘pack, bundle’ + the Anglo-Norman French pejorative suffix -ard, probably a derogatory occupational name for a peddler.
English: pejorative derivative of the Middle English personal name Pack .
Probably also an Americanized form of German Packert, Päckert, from ancient Germanic personal names formed with a word meaning ‘battle’ or ‘to fight’; or a variant of Packer 2 (with excrescent -t).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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