When Thomas Jesse Wooten Sr. was born on 8 November 1900, in Leesburg, Lee, Georgia, United States, his father, Jesse Richard Wooten, was 34 and his mother, Georgia Anne Missouri Pridgen, was 33. He married Lavada Cross Hilliard on 25 December 1919, in South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in District 1127, Coffee, Georgia, United States in 1910. He died on 17 October 1970, at the age of 69, and was buried in Pridgen, Coffee, Georgia, United States.
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President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Historical Boundaries: 1906: Coffee, Georgia, United States
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English wid(u), wudu ‘wood’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, such as Wootton in Northamptonshire or Oxfordshire, Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire, Wotton in Surrey, and Wotton under Edge in Gloucestershire.
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