Ora Mae Sims

Brief Life History of Ora Mae

When Ora Mae Sims was born on 23 October 1927, in Tennessee, United States, her father, John Thompson Sims, was 36 and her mother, Lucinda Lee Miller, was 33. She lived in United States in 1949 and Beat 4, Hinds, Mississippi, United States in 1950. She died on 4 April 2007, in Jackson, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, United States.

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Joseph Thomas Hale
1924–2013
Ora Mae Sims
1927–2007

Sources (6)

  • Ora Mae Hale, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Ora Mae Hale, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Ora Mae Sims in entry for Richard Miller Reisenbichler and Barbara Kay Hale, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"

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World Events (8)

1929

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

1931 · The Parthenon is Built

In 1931, a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Greece was erected in Nashville, Tennessee. The Parthenon was meant to be temporary, but became a permanent part of Tennessee culture. It also has a replica of the statue of Athena the Goddess of War.At the same time a city over Memphis built  giant pyramid replica to remind everyone what the city was named for. 

1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War

The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.

Name Meaning

English (southern):

variant of Sim , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.

topographic name for one who lived or worked at the house of someone called Symme (Simon).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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