Brief Life History of Mary Eliza
When Mary Eliza Astle was born on 12 October 1918, in Montpelier, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States, her father, William Llewellyn Astle, was 28 and her mother, Mary Stocker, was 23. She married Evan Clyde Bair on 11 December 1942, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Fair Oaks, Sacramento, California, United States in 1935 and Sacramento Judicial Township, Sacramento, California, United States in 1940. She died on 17 March 2017, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 98, and was buried in Alpine Cemetery, Alpine, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Mary E Astle, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Eliza Astle - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Mary Eliza Astle
- Marriage Certificate for Evan Clyde Bair and Mary Eliza Astle, 1942
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
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: habitational name from a place in Cheshire called Astle, from Old English ēast ‘east’ + hyll ‘hill’. There may also have been some confusion with Asthall and Astley . Or occasionally this may be a topographic name denoting residence on an ‘east hill’ (from Middle English ast + hill or hull), i.e. a hill to the east of a settlement.
English: perhaps also a habitational name from Astwell, Northamptonshire, from Old English ēast ‘east’ + wielle ‘spring’.
English: habitational name from Asthall, Oxfordshire, from Old English ēast ‘east’ + halh ‘nook’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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