Mary Elizabeth Jenkins

Female16 March 1921–24 December 2000

Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth

When Mary Elizabeth Jenkins was born on 16 March 1921, in Fithian, Vermilion, Illinois, United States, her father, Levitt Evans Jenkins, was 31 and her mother, Minnie Bertha Bantz, was 31. She married Charles Leo Darr on 29 June 1941. She lived in Oakwood, Vermilion, Illinois, United States in 1930. She died on 24 December 2000, in Urbana, Champaign, Illinois, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Muncie, Vermilion, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles Leo Darr
1919–2013
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
1921–2000
Marriage: 29 June 1941

Sources (5)

  • Mary E Jenkins in household of Levitt Jenkins, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Mary E Darr, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Mary Elizabeth Darr, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    29 June 1941
  • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (2)

    World Events (8)

    1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

    Age 2

    Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

    1925 · Woman's World's Fair

    Age 4

    The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women

    1942

    Age 21

    On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and a small band of scientists and engineers demonstrated that a simple construction of graphite bricks and uranium lumps could produce controlled heat. The space chosen for the first nuclear fission reactor was a squash court under the football stadium at the University of Chicago.

    Name Meaning

    English and Welsh: variant of Jenkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. Jenkins is one of the most common surnames in England, especially southwestern England, but is also especially associated with Wales.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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