Martha Melvina Fair

16 January 1857–27 January 1939 (Age 82)
Murphy, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States

The Life Summary of Martha Melvina

When Martha Melvina Fair was born on 16 January 1857, in Murphy, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, her father, Price Fair, was 32 and her mother, Elvira Rogers, was 32. She married Gaither Burgess Lovingood on 24 January 1874, in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870. She died on 27 January 1939, in Andrews, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Murphy Township, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

Gaither Burgess Lovingood
1857–1946
Martha Melvina Fair
1857–1939
Marriage: 24 January 1874
Callie Lovingood
1874–1923
Josephine Lovingood
1878–1954
Dorcas Lovingood
1879–1967
Mattie Lovingood
1881–1968
Rachel Lovingood
1883–1958
Napoleon Daley Lovingood
1886–1945
Robert T. Lovingood
1888–1959
William Oscar Lovingood
1891–1955
Pvt Benjamin Harrison Lovingood
1893–1971
Dovie Elizabeth Lovingood
1895–1977

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    24 January 1874Cherokee, North Carolina, United States
    • Children

    (10)

    +5 More Children

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (9)

    +4 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1862 · Battle of Roanoke Island
    Age 5
    On February 7, 1862, General Burnside's expedition started with the Battle of Roanoke Island. The battle was mostly fought by the Union and Confederate Navy's. This was a Union victory.
    1863
    Age 6
    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
    1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
    Age 24
    Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

    Name Meaning

    (1997: 6030;2007: 13135; 2010: 18609)English: nickname meaning ‘handsome, beautiful, fair’, Middle English fair, fayr, Old English fæger. The word was also occasionally used as a personal name in Middle English, applied to both men and women.Irish: translation into English of Gaelic fionn ‘fair’, which Woulfe describes as a ‘descriptive epithet that supplanted the real surname’, or a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac F(h)inn, a variant of Mag Fhinn (see McGinn ).

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

    Possible Related Names

    McGinn
    Farson
    Faires

    Sources (47)

    • Vinie Lovingood in household of Gather B Lovingood, "United States Census, 1930"
    • Vina Lovingood in entry for W O Lovingood and Braske McClure, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
    • Melvina Fair in entry for Dovie R Crus, "Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987"

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