Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth
When Mary Elizabeth Steger was born on 20 January 1928, in Maryland, United States, her father, Alvin Clarence Steger, was 17 and her mother, Lettie Irene Zepp, was 31. She lived in District 6, Carroll, Maryland, United States for about 5 years. She died on 7 October 2003, at the age of 75, and was buried in Gettysburg, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Mary Steger in household of Alvin Steger, "United States Census, 1940"
- Mary Elizabeth Steger Linard, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mary Elizabeth Steger Linard in entry for Robert F Linard, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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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 Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
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
German: topographic name for someone who lived by a path or by a plank bridge, from an agent derivative of Middle High German stec ‘steep path or track, narrow bridge’.
German: habitational name for someone from Stege or Steeg.
English (Gloucestershire): variant of Stigger (see Sticker ) with Middle English lowering and lengthening of the vowel.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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