Brief Life History of Willis Elroy
When Willis Elroy Franklin Jr. was born on 15 January 1918, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Willis Elroy Franklin Sr., was 30 and his mother, Geneva Arvella Littlefield, was 25. He married Lois Arlene Ringnell on 31 May 1952, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in Whitefish, Flathead, Montana, United States in 1920 and Houston, Harris, Texas, United States in 1930. He died on 8 October 2007, in Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Willis E Franklin, "United States Census, 1940"
- Willis Elroy Franklin, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Willis Elroy Franklin, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1919 · Oil is Discovered at Cat Creek
Located near Petroleum and Garfield counties in Montana is Cat Creek . It was here in 1919, that oil was discovered
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Name Meaning
English: status name from Middle English frankeleyn ‘freeman, freeholder, land-owner of free but not noble birth’ (Anglo-Norman French fraunclein). In general, he was a gentleman ranked above the main body of minor freeholders but below a knight or a member of the nobility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames, such as Frankel .
History: The American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) was the son of Josiah Franklin, a chandler (dealer in soap and candles), who had emigrated c. 1682 from Ecton, Northamptonshire, to Boston, MA, where his son was born.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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