When Dora Melinda Leftwich was born on 10 June 1882, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, her father, Daniel Burton Leftwich, was 20 and her mother, Ardelene Rhoda Williams, was 23. She married James McNeely Hawks on 6 April 1898, in Carroll, Virginia, United States. She lived in Virginia, United States in 1882 and Mount Airy Township, Surry, North Carolina, United States in 1910. She died on 2 January 1934, in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in North Carolina, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
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.
English: habitational name from Leftwich in Cheshire, so named fromthe Old English female personal name Lēoftǣt +wīc ‘dairy farm, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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