Brief Life History of Mary Jean
When Mary Jean Bailey was born on 11 March 1931, in Newport, Rock, Nebraska, United States, her father, Elby Rowles Bailey, was 32 and her mother, Thelma Leota Keebaugh, was 23. She married Dr. John H. Ewing on 6 June 1954, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States. She lived in Bassett Election Precinct, Rock, Nebraska, United States in 1940. She died on 23 May 2012, in Hastings, Adams, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Parkview Cemetery, Hastings, Adams, Nebraska, United States.
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- Mary Jean Bailey in household of Elbie Bailey, "United States Census, 1940"
- Mary Jean Bailey Ewing, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mary Jean Ewing in entry for Laura L Brogard, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
1944 · Congress Passes the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Project
The Flood Control Act of 1944 was passed and would later be called the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program. It was named after the authors of the program Lewis A. Pick and William Glenn Sloan. It began as two separate plans but they both had the idea for an irrigation system that would help with the flooding of the Missouri River.
1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins
The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.
Name Meaning
English: status name for a steward or official, from Middle English bailli ‘manager, administrator’ (Old French baillis, from Late Latin baiulivus, an adjectival derivative of baiulus ‘attendant, carrier, porter’).
English: habitational name from Bailey in Little Mitton, Lancashire, named with Old English beg ‘berry’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
English: occasionally a topographic name for someone who lived by the outer wall of a castle, from Middle English (Old French) bailli ‘outer courtyard of a castle’ (Old French bail(le) ‘enclosure’, a derivative of bailer ‘to enclose’). This term became a placename in its own right, denoting a district beside a fortification or wall, as in the case of the Old Bailey in London, which formed part of the early medieval outer wall of the city.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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