Brief Life History of Pollie Lois
When Pollie Lois Langford was born in July 1877, in Mississippi, United States, her father, Thomas Davis Langford, was 49 and her mother, Lucinda Lucy Frances Wilson, was 35. She lived in Beat 3, Newton, Mississippi, United States in 1880 and Newton, Mississippi, United States in 1900.
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- Pollie L Langford in household of Thos S Langford, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Pollie Lois Langford - Government record: Census record: birth: 1877; ,,Mississippi, United States
- Pallie Lois Langford in household of L D Langford, "United States Census, 1880"
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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.
1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop
When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.
1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called with Old English lang ‘long’ + ford ‘ford’, such as Langford (Bedfordshire, Nottinghamshire, Essex, Norfolk).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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