Brief Life History of Ira Lee
When Ira Lee Bryant was born on 28 July 1942, in Ponca City, Kay, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Mack Stewart Bryant, was 23 and his mother, Mary Lorene Cron, was 20. He lived in Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States in 1950. He died on 24 April 1978, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Altus, Jackson, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Iva L Bryant, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ira Bryant, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Ira Lee Bryant in entry for Zola Clements Davis, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
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1943 · Oklahoma is Home to Thousands of POW's
Oklahoma was home to 22,000 German and Italian prisoners of war. The prisoners were sent to work on farms and ranches to continue the production work as many American men were off at war.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
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 (of Norman origin): from the Celtic personal name Brian (from brigo- ‘high’ + the suffix -ant-), with excrescent -t. Breton bearers of this name were among the Normans who invaded England in 1066. They went on to settle in Ireland in the 12th century, where the name mingled with the native Irish form Briain (see O'Brien ). The latter had also been borrowed, as Brján, by the Vikings, who introduced it independently into northwestern England before the Norman Conquest.
Breton: very rare variant of Briant (see Briand ) and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
History: The American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) came of a New England family, being descended from Stephen Bryant, who had settled in Plymouth Colony in 1632.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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