Brief Life History of Jessie Alba
When Jessie Alba Speck was born on 20 October 1880, in Birmingham, Guernsey, Ohio, United States, her father, Benjamin Wells Speck, was 25 and her mother, Margaret Samantha Richards, was 22. She married Charles Wesley Rice on 12 June 1907, in Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Mill Township, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States for about 20 years and Union Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died on 13 June 1972, in Union City, Wayne Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States, at the age of 91.
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- Alma Rice in household of Charles Rice, "United States Census, 1900"
- Alba J Speck, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Jessie A. Speck, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
German: from Middle High German spec ‘bacon’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a seller of bacon or a pork butcher, or a nickname for a fat person.
German: topographic name from Middle High German speck(e) ‘log bridge or road’.
German: habitational name from any of the places called Speck, Specke, or Specken.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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