Mary Etta Street

Brief Life History of Mary Etta

When Mary Etta Street was born on 21 January 1890, in Benton, Mississippi, United States, her father, Marion Van Buren Street, was 23 and her mother, Caldonia Loucretia James, was 18. She married William Steven McKee on 27 March 1907, in Benton, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Beat 1, Benton, Mississippi, United States for about 10 years and Saulsbury, Wilson, Tennessee, United States in 1925. She died on 19 December 1925, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in McKee Cemetery, Falkner, Benton, Mississippi, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Steven McKee
1886–1960
Mary Etta Street
1890–1925
Marriage: 27 March 1907
Ruth Ina McKee
1908–1970
William Palmer McKee
1910–1973
James Blanchard Mc Kee
1912–1966
Grace Viola McKee
1914–2010
Woodrow Morris McKee
1916–1981
Sallie Etta Mckee
1918–1996
Callie Lenora McKee
1921–1999
Robert Earl Mc Kee
1923–1968
Wendell Herman McKee
1925–1998

Sources (10)

  • Mary E Mckee in household of Steve W Mckee, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Maryetta Street, "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1818-1979"
  • Mary Etta Street, "Tennessee, Deaths, 1914-1966"

World Events (8)

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.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English stret(e) ‘street, Roman road’ (Old English strǣt). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in the main street of a village or town or by a Roman road, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Street (Kent, Herefordshire, Somerset), Street on the Fosse (Somerset), Strete in Blackawton (Devon), Strete Raleigh in Whimple (Devon), or Streat (Sussex). In the Middle Ages the word at first denoted a Roman road but later also came to denote the main street in a town or village.

Americanized form (translation into English) of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Strasser and a number of other surnames with similar meaning.

Americanized form of Jewish (from Morocco) Chetrit: perhaps from the Arabic verbal root shṭr ‘to become skillful, dexterous, astute’. The exact origin of the suffix –it is unclear.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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