Brief Life History of Mary Helen
When Mary Helen Davis was born on 10 April 1934, in Tulip, Dallas, Arkansas, United States, her father, Jahue Blakley Davis, was 35 and her mother, Cordellia L. Fleming, was 31. She lived in Willow, Dallas, Arkansas, United States in 1940. She died on 12 November 2001, in Malvern, Hot Spring, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Hot Spring, Arkansas, United States.
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- Mary Helen Davis in household of Jahue Davis, "United States Census, 1940"
- Mary D Catlett, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Mary Catlett in entry for Mildred Margaret Horne, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
1935 · The Social Security Act
This Act was created a basic right to a pension in old age, and insurance against unemployment.
1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins
The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .
History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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