When Avery Adair Mankin was born on 31 July 1922, his father, Andrew Jackson Mankin, was 35 and his mother, Malissie Viola Vaughn, was 29. He married Margarette Laverne Mullins on 1 September 1948, in Hunt, Texas, United States. He lived in Wolfe City, Hunt, Texas, United States in 1940 and Garland, Dallas, Texas, United States in 1999. He registered for military service in 1941. He died on 28 September 1997, at the age of 75, and was buried in Wolfe City, Hunt, Texas, United States.
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Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.
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.
English: from a pet form of the personal name Man(n) (see Mann 2), or a nickname from a diminutive of the nounman, with the sense of ‘little man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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