Brief Life History of Grace Lenora
When Grace Lenora Eshom was born on 27 May 1929, in Burrton Township, Harvey, Kansas, United States, her father, George Washington Eshom, was 50 and her mother, Ruth Beatrice Goodell, was 37. She married Sgt. Leonard Alexander Piontkowski on 1 March 1975, in Clark, Nevada, United States. She lived in Harvey, Kansas, United States in 1935 and Northfork Township, Barton, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 19 September 2003, at the age of 74, and was buried in Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Grace L Eshom in household of George W Eshom, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Grace Lenore Eshome - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Grace Lenore Eshome
- Grace Lenora Eshom, "Nevada Marriage Index, 1956-2005"
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1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1938 · Electrification of Rural Kansas
Power was supplied to rural Kansas, which had been hit hard by the depression, in March 1938. Many farmers could not afford the $5 hookups for electricity. As a result, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act which provided loans to farmers who wanted electricity. Brown County became the first to receive service.
1949 · NATO is Established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The agreement of the alliance is to help defend each other if attacked by an external country. The last country to enter was Montenegro in 2017.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Esham (see Isham ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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