Brief Life History of Rachel Elizabeth
When Rachel Elizabeth GRANGER was born on 15 August 1924, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States, her father, Edgar Luther Granger, was 30 and her mother, Ida Lucille Waits, was 25. She married Kenneth Lee Fletcher on 1 April 1940, in Minton, Worth, Georgia, United States. She died on 3 January 2007, in Louisiana, United States, at the age of 82.
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- Rachel Granger, "Texas Marriages, 1966-2010"
- Elizabeth Granger Smith, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1942 · Germans Sink Ships Near St. Simons Island
Lights from homes along the coast of St. Simons Island provided a clear view of the SS Oklahoma for German U-boat Captain Reinhard Hardegen on April 8, 1942. A German torpedo was fired at the SS Oklahoma shortly after midnight. An hour later, a second torpedo was fired at the oil tanker Esso Baton Rouge. Both ships sunk and the attacks left 22 seamen dead. After the incident, residents of the Golden Isles panicked over concern of a German Invasion of the coast and were stringently observant of a nighttime blackout.
1947 · The Presidential Succession Act
The Presidential Succession Act is an act establishing the presidential line of succession. This was a precursor for the Twenty-fifth Amendment which outlines what is to happen when a President is killed, dies, or is unable to fulfill the responsibilities of President.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a farm bailiff, responsible for overseeing the collection of rent in kind into the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor. This official had the Anglo-Norman French title grainger, Old French grangier, from Late Latin granicarius, a derivative of granica ‘granary’ (see Grange ).
French: from Old French grangier (see 1 above), an occupational name for an owner of a granary or a status name for a tenant farmer, a sharecropper.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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