Brief Life History of Margaret Jamieson
When Margaret Jamieson Kelso was born on 27 September 1920, in Bonhill, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, James Kelso, was 28 and her mother, Jessie Sharp, was 26. She married Jay Charles Gebert Sr on 30 March 1939, in Bowling Green, Licking, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She immigrated to Vermont, United States in 1926 and lived in Ecorse, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1950 and Trenton, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 2004. She died on 1 June 2012, in Bellaire, Kearney Township, Antrim, Michigan, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Flat Rock, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
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- Margarette Gebert, "United States 1950 Census"
- Margaret Kelso, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Margaret J Kelso Gebert, "Find A Grave Index"
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1921 · The Detroit Historical Society
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Kelso on the river Tweed in Roxburghshire, so named from Old English calc ‘chalk’ + hōh ‘heel, spur of land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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