Etta Margaret Gill

Brief Life History of Etta Margaret

When Etta Margaret Gill was born on 4 June 1919, in Pleasant Hill, Pike, Illinois, United States, her father, Alexander Haywood Gill, was 29 and her mother, Mary B Butler, was 30. She died on 25 September 2007, in Pike, Illinois, United States, at the age of 88.

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Family Time Line

Franklin C Richards
1917–1982
Etta Margaret Gill
1919–2007

Sources (7)

  • Etta M Gill in household of Ira Butler, "United States Census, 1930"
  • E Margaret Richards, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Etta Gill in entry for Franklin C Richards, "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998"

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World Events (8)

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

1925 · Woman's World's Fair

The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women

1942

On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and a small band of scientists and engineers demonstrated that a simple construction of graphite bricks and uranium lumps could produce controlled heat. The space chosen for the first nuclear fission reactor was a squash court under the football stadium at the University of Chicago.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Indian Avtar, Amritpal, Darshan, Hardip, Nirmal, Sohan, Ajit, Balwinder, Charan, Jasvir, Kewal, Navdeep.

English and Scottish: in northern England and Scotland sometimes from Middle English Gille, Old Norse Gilli, which is of Irish (Gaelic) origin (see below), and pronounced with a hard g. As a personal name it is not found after c. 1200.

English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English gille ‘deep glen, ravine’ (Old Norse (Norwegian) gil), pronounced with a hard g. The term is found mainly in northwestern England, where Norwegian Vikings settled.

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

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