Brief Life History of Jesse Melvin
When Jesse Melvin Jones was born on 26 August 1937, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Russell B. "RB" Or "Arby" Jones, was 37 and his mother, Myrtle Perry LeGrand, was 33. He married Dorothy Darlene Lake on 8 December 1956, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Central City, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States in 1999. He died on 23 December 2015, in Kentucky, United States, at the age of 78.
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- Jessie M Jones in household of R B Jones, "United States Census, 1940"
- Jesse Jones in entry for Rosy Mae Noffsinger, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Jesse Jones in entry for James Earl Jones, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1944 · Kentucky Dam is Completed
The Kentucky dam is a hydroelectric dam that spans the Tennessee River between Livingston and Marshall counties in Kentucky. It was completed August 30,1944.
1958 · The First U.S. Satellite in Space
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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