When Mary Ruth Fairchild was born on 3 January 1919, in Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William John Fairchild, was 33 and her mother, Mary Margaret Croop, was 34. She married Richard Wayne Pomeroy in 1952, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. She died on 5 April 1993, at the age of 74, and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
English (southern): nickname from Middle English fair child ‘handsome child’ or ‘handsome youth of noble birth’ (see Child ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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