Dorothy Gertrude Ferguson
Updated Feb 06, 2019
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Dorothy Gertrude Ferguson (1899 - 1943)

Dorothy Gertrude Ferguson was born in 1899. She was born to Arthurs Charles Ferguson and Jane Boxshall Ferguson, and we currently have no other siblings in her family tree. She died in 1943 in Melbourne, Australia at age 44.
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 in in Melbourne, Australia

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Last Known Residence

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Average Age

Dorothy Gertrude Ferguson lived 26 years shorter than the average Ferguson family member when she died at the age of 44.

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Family

Father: Arthurs Charles Ferguson
Mother: Jane Boxshall Ferguson

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Middle name

Gertrude

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1899 - In the year that Dorothy Gertrude Ferguson was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.

1920 - Dorothy was 21 years old when the National Football League, first called the American Professional Football Association, was created. College football was more popular than pro football and rising player salaries were bankrupting league owners. In response, owners created the NFL, using the pro baseball association as a model. Eleven teams were formed: the Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians, Dayton Triangles, Decatur Staleys, Hammond Pros, Massillon Tigers, Muncie Flyers, Racine Cardinals, Rochester Jeffersons and Rock Island Independents.

1933 - When she was 34 years old, on December 5th, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The 21st Amendment said "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." Alcohol was legal again! It was the only amendment to the Constitution approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously existing amendment. South Carolina was the only state to reject the Amendment.

1935 - She was 36 years old when on August 14, the Social Security Act was signed into law. The purpose was to "provide federal assistance to those unable to work". The law established the Social Security Administration whose primary focus was to "provide aid for the elderly, the unemployed, and children". The Act survived many Supreme Court challenges and the Administration continues until today.

1943 - In the year of Dorothy Gertrude Ferguson's passing, on September 3rd, the Armistice of Cassibile was signed in Sicily. Under the terms of the Armistice, Italy surrendered to the Allied Powers. After the Armistice was made public on September 8th, Germany attacked and occupied Italy. It took 20 months of fighting for the Allies to reach the northern borders of Italy.

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Dorothy Gertrude Ferguson passed away in 1943 in Melbourne, Australia at 44 years of age. There is no listed cause of death for Dorothy. She was born in 1899. She was born to Arthurs Charles Ferguson and Jane Boxshall Ferguson, and we currently have no other siblings in her family tree.

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Source(s): Victoria Australia Death Records: 1836 - 1985

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