Brief Life History of Ray William
When Ray William Bridge was born on 3 July 1915, in Monticello, Union Township, White, Indiana, United States, his father, Lloyd G Bridge, was 27 and his mother, Anna Bowsher, was 27. He married Dorothy Fern Duncan on 14 February 1937, in White, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Union Township, White, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 2009. He died on 5 October 2009, in Chandler, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Valley of the Sun Cemetery, Chandler, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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- Ray W Bridge, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ray W. Bridge, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Ray W Bridge, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1919 · Mesa Arizona Latter-day Saint Temple Announced
The Mesa Arizona Latter-day Saint Temple was announced on October 3, 1919. Don Carlos Young and Ramm Hansen were chosen to design the temple. The Mesa, Arizona temple was the first temple to be built in Arizona.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English brigge ‘bridge’, Old English brycg, applied as a topographic name for someone who lived near a bridge, a metonymic occupational name for a bridge keeper, or a habitational name from any of the places called with this element, as for example Bridge in Kent or Bridge Sollers in Herefordshire. Building and maintaining bridges was one of the three main feudal obligations, along with bearing arms and maintaining fortifications. The cost of building a bridge was often defrayed by charging a toll, the surname thus being acquired by the toll gatherer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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