When Rebecca Elizabeth Wyatt was born on 11 September 1898, in Whitley, Kentucky, United States, her father, John Wyatt, was 46 and her mother, Amy Meadors Wyatt, was 38. She married James Harrison Davis on 7 October 1926, in Krupp, Whitley, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Magisterial District 1, Whitley, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Magisterial District 3, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died on 15 November 1930, in Cumberland Falls, McCreary, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Piney Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
English:
from the Middle English personal names Wiot or Wiet. These are often pet forms of Wy, from ancient Germanic Wido (see Guy , compare Wyand 1). Wy is the usual Norman French form of the name; the Parisian French form is Guy. Wiot was also used as a diminutive of William . As a surname Wyot(t) became Wyatt during the 16th century.
in Suffolk, this is sometimes a variant of Wyard, from the Middle English personal name Wiard, which is generally from Old English Wīgheard, which is composed of the elements wīg ‘battle’ + heard ‘bold, brave’. Occasionally it may be from Old French Wiard, ancient Germanic Withard (see Viard ).
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