Brief Life History of Willis Tracye
When Willis Tracye Holmes was born on 7 January 1915, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, his father, Gilbert Tracy Holmes, was 35 and his mother, Stella Angeline Hudel, was 26. He married Jane Mary France Quenstedt on 20 January 1940, in Las Vegas Township, Clark, Nevada, United States. He lived in Mexico in 1935. He died on 19 August 1988, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 73.
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- Willis T. Holmes, "United States Census, 1940"
- Willis T Holmes, "Nevada County Marriages, 1862-1993"
- Willis Tracy Holmes, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1916
"General John J. ""Blackjack"" Pershing's punitive expedition pursues Villa and provokes bitterness between Mexico and United States."
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.
1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
Name Meaning
English: either from the plural form of Holme , or else a variant of Holme or Home , with excrescent -s (see Holm ).
Scottish: probably a habitational name from Holmes near Dundonald (Ayrshire), or possibly from another place so called in the barony of Inchestuir (Angus). Both placenames likely derive from the plural form of Middle English, Older Scots holm ‘islet, raised land in a marsh’ (see Holm ).
Scottish and Irish: adopted for Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Thómais, Mac Thómais (see McComb ). In parts of western Ireland, Holmes is also a variant of Cavish, from Gaelic Mac Thámhais, another patronymic from Thomas . Early bearers in Ireland were probably immigrants from Scotland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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