Brief Life History of Sharon Sue
When Sharon Sue Peters was born on 1 September 1950, in Van Buren, Crawford, Arkansas, United States, her father, Archie Leland Peters, was 37 and her mother, Lora Katheryn "Lore" Yakley, was 30. She died on 26 June 2003, in Muldrow, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Gill Cemetery, Van Buren, Crawford, Arkansas, United States.
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- Sharon Sue Peters Jones, "Find A Grave Index"
- Sharon Jones in entry for Fay Fayro Peters, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
- US Find a Grave Index, 1600s - Current
World Events (8)
1951 · The Twenty-Second Amendment
Before the Twenty-second Amendment, the Presidency didn’t have a set number limit on how many times they could be elected or re-elected to the office of President of the United States. The Amendment sets that limit to two times, consecutively or not, and sets additional conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.
1957 · Troops are sent to Central High School
In September 1957, troops were sent to Central High school in Little Rock, Arkansas. The reason was that nine African American children were going to start going to this school and putting the new law of Brown v Board of Education into action. These nine children became known as the Little Rock nine.
1965 · The Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act prohibits racial discrimination in voting. The Act secured the right to vote for minorities in the South. It also prohibits local governments from making any voting law that results in discrimination against any kind of minorities.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . This surname (mainly of German origin) is also found in Sweden, Denmark, France (Alsace and Lorraine), and some other European countries. In North America it has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, such as Albanian Pjetraj and Pjetrushi, patronymics from the personal name Pjetër ‘Peter’ and its pet form Pjetrush; see also below and also examples at Peterson .
Irish: Anglicized form (translation) of Gaelic Mac Pheadair ‘son of Peter’.
Americanized form of Dutch and North German Pieters .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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