Brief Life History of Mildred Louise
When Mildred Louise Shelite was born on 8 January 1925, in Capron, Woods, Oklahoma, United States, her father, Henry Rudolph Shelite, was 31 and her mother, Myrtle Shurts, was 29. She lived in Lawn Township, Harper, Kansas, United States in 1940 and Sharon Township, Barber, Kansas, United States in 1950. She died on 31 July 1978, in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Capron, Woods, Oklahoma, United States.
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Sources (4)
- Mildred Shelite, "United States 1950 Census"
- Mildred Tate in entry for Velma May Haas, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
- Mildred Shelite in household of Henry Shelite, "United States Census, 1940"
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World Events (8)
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1927 · Kansas Adopts a Flag
The flag of the State of Kansas was adopted on September 24, 1927. The flag was designed by Hazel Avery in 1925.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Probably an Americanized form of German Schielein, a variant of Schühlein, a metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker, from Middle High German scuoch ‘shoe’ + the diminutive suffix līn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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