Brief Life History of Mary Lavenia
When Mary Lavenia London was born on 19 October 1868, in Cashiers, Jackson, North Carolina, United States, her father, Harvey Rush Brownlow London, was 29 and her mother, Martha Ann Rochester, was 23. She married Charles Manley Hampton in 1898, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States in 1910 and Asheville Township, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States in 1940. She died on 28 August 1954, in Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States.
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- Mary L Hampton in household of Charles M Hampton, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Lavenia London - Published information: birth-name: Mary Lavenia London
- Mary Lavenia Hampton, "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1877 · Last Troops Leave
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone who came from London or a nickname for someone who had made a trip to London or had some other connection with the city. In some cases however, the Jewish name was purely artificial. The placename, recorded by the Roman historian Tacitus in the Latinized form Londinium, is obscure in origin and meaning, but may be derived from pre-Celtic (Old European) roots with a meaning something like ‘place at the navigable or unfordable river’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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