Brief Life History of Myrtle
When Myrtle Blackwell was born on 1 August 1926, in Dekalb, Kershaw, South Carolina, United States, her father, George Quincy Blackwell, was 29 and her mother, Ada Victoria Gardner, was 24. She had at least 1 son with Wilburn Thomas Langley. She lived in De Kalb Township, Kershaw, Camden District, South Carolina, United States in 1940. She died on 18 October 1950, at the age of 24, and was buried in Camden, Kershaw, South Carolina, United States.
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Sources (6)
- Myrtle Blackwell in household of Quincy Blackwell, "United States Census, 1940"
- Myrtle Blackwell Langley, "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965"
- Myrtle Langley in entry for Mrs Ruth Blackwell Russ, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
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World Events (8)
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Blackwell, for example in Cumbria, Derbyshire, County Durham, Warwickshire, Somerset, Devon, Sussex, and Worcestershire, named in Old English frp blæc ‘black, dark’ + wæll(a), well(a) ‘spring, stream’. Alternatively, it may be a topographic name for someone who lived by the ‘dark well or stream’, Middle English blak + wel(le).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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