Clayton Jay Moyer

Male2 September 1953–18 July 1992

Brief Life History of Clayton Jay

When Clayton Jay Moyer was born on 2 September 1953, in Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota, United States, his father, William Owen Moyer, was 39 and his mother, Hallie Elmira Keen, was 37. He lived in Renner, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States in 2007. He died on 18 July 1992, in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Owen Moyer
1914–2007
Hallie Elmira Keen
1916–2011
Martha Joan Moyer
1947–2017
Clayton Jay Moyer
1953–1992

Sources (4)

  • C J Moyer, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Clay Moyer in entry for William Owen Or Bill Moyer, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
  • Clayton Jay Moyer, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins

Age 2

The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.

1955 · To War in Vietnam

Age 2

The Vietnam War was another civil war brought about from the Cold War. It was fought between the North Vietnamese, who were supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies, and the South Vietnamese, who were supported by the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war caused two more civil wars in Laos and Cambodia and resulted in all three countries becoming communist states.

1964 · The Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Age 11

The Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibits both all the states and Congress from swaying the right to vote in elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.

Name Meaning

Americanized form of German Meyer or Mayer .

French: status name for a sharecropper, from an angent derivative of Old French moie ‘half’.

In some cases also an Americanized form of Dutch Mooijer: surname associated with Maaijer, an occupational name for a mower or reaper (see Maier ). However, almost all bearers come from Volendam (North Holland), where the surname originated as Pooijer, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman (peurder) or a nickname for someone carrying a ponjaard ‘dagger’. The surname was changed to Mooijer due to the connotation with Dutch pooier ‘bully, fancy-man’.

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

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