Brief Life History of Bertha Edith
When Bertha Edith Gordon was born on 17 May 1918, in Prince William, Virginia, United States, her father, Joseph Hiram Gordon, was 36 and her mother, Hester Victoria Griffith, was 32. She married Norman Harding Wyatt on 27 February 1938, in Rockville, Montgomery, Maryland, United States. She lived in Dumfries, Prince William, Virginia, United States for about 10 years and Woodbridge, Prince William, Virginia, United States in 1935. She died on 12 January 2003, in Manassas, Virginia, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Woodbine Cemetery, Canova, Prince William, Virginia, United States.
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Sources (14)
- Bertha Wyatt, "United States 1950 Census"
- Bertha Edyth Gordon Wyatt, "Find A Grave Index"
- Bertha Edith Wyatt in entry for Norman Harding Wyatt, "Virginia, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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World Events (8)
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Gordon in Berwickshire, named with Welsh gor ‘spacious’ + din ‘fort’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Gourdon in Saône-et-Loire, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordus + the locative suffix -o, -ōnis.
English (of Norman origin): alternatively, said to be a nickname from a diminutive of Old French gourd ‘heavy, dull, sluggish’ (compare 8 below).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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