Brief Life History of Dorothy
When Dorothy Evans was born on 25 April 1922, in Georgia, United States, her father, Willie Dink Evans Sr, was 23 and her mother, Florence Eudelle McGregor, was 22. She had at least 3 sons with Jim Paul Mock. She lived in Sylvania, Effingham, Georgia, United States in 1940 and Sylvania, Screven, Georgia, United States in 1950. She died on 30 April 2007, at the age of 85, and was buried in Sylvania, Effingham, Georgia, United States.
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Sources (10)
- Darthy E Mack, "United States 1950 Census"
- Dorothy Evans Mock, "Find A Grave Index"
- Dorothy Evans Mock in entry for Kenneth Evans Mock, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1941 · Florida Involvement in World War II
Similar to the first World War, Florida's location and temperature served as an ideal location for military training; in fact, Florida would end up having 172 military installations. As a result of World War II growth, Camp Blanding became the fourth largest city in Florida, capable of housing over 55,000 soldiers. Many Floridians sacrificed their lives among other Americans to win the war; it's estimated that about 3,000 U.S. deaths were from Floridian troops.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
Name Meaning
Welsh: derivative of Evan , from Efan, Ifan, medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes, the source of English John), dating from c. 1500, with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John, and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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