Brief Life History of Bertha
When Bertha Slaughter was born on 6 June 1909, in Monroe, Kentucky, United States, her father, Oscar P Slaughter, was 27 and her mother, Sella M. Fraizer Slaughter, was 19. She married James Martin Gentry about 1927. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Magisterial District 2 Turner, Monroe, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Tompkinsville, Monroe, Kentucky, United States in 1920. She died on 14 December 1977, in Red Boiling Springs, Macon, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Red Boiling Springs, Macon, Tennessee, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (13)
- Bertha Slaughter in household of Oscar Slaughter, "United States Census, 1920"
- Bertha Slaughter Gentry in entry for Wallace J McGuire and Eldean Gentry, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Bertha Slaughter in household of Oscar D Slaughter, "United States Census, 1910"
Spouse and Children
1910–1998 Male
1909–1977 Female
Children (2)
about 1945–about 1945 Male
– Male
Parents and Siblings
1882–1967 Male
1890–1974 Female
Siblings (7)
1907–1995 Female
1909–1977 Female
1912–about 1945 Male
1915–1983 Female
1919–1997 Male
+2 More Children
World Events (8)
1910 · The BSA is Made
Age 1
1912 · McCreary County Created
Age 3
1927
Age 18
Name Meaning
English:
in East Anglia and Essex, an occupational name from Middle English slaughter ‘butcher’, a derivative of Middle English slaught ‘butchery’ + er, or from a shortened form of the synonymous Middle English slaughterer, a derivative of slaughter ‘butchery’ + -er. Compare Slater 2.
in Sussex and Surrey a habitational name denoting residence at one or other of several minor placenames such as Slaughter Bridge in Slinfold, Slaughter Bridge in Shipley, Slaughterford (Farm) in Itchingfield, the lost Slaughters in Billingshurst (all Sussex), and Slaughterwicks Barn in Charlwood (Surrey). The names may derive from Middle English slo(gh) ‘sloe, blackthorn’ (Old English slāh) + tre ‘tree’ (Old English trēow), or from Middle English sloghtre, sloghtere ‘slough, mire, muddy place’, or perhaps ‘deep river valley’, or ‘ditch’ (Old English slōhtre). The latter is certainly the etymology of Upper and Lower Slaughter (Gloucestershire) and The Slaughter in English Bicknor (Gloucestershire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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