Brief Life History of Mella Jo
When Mella Jo Reddick was born on 9 August 1894, in Georgia, United States, her father, James LaFayette Reddick Jr, was 30 and her mother, Lillie Borders, was 16. She lived in Gordon, Wilkinson, Georgia, United States in 1910 and United States in 1949. She died on 2 November 1978, in Gordon, Georgia, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Methodist Church Cemetery, Calhoun, Gordon, Georgia, United States.
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- Mella J Reddick, "United States Census, 1910"
- Mella Reddick, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Mella G. R??ddix, "United States Census, 1950"
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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.
1906 · The Atlanta Race Riot
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22 through September 24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by pre-existing racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next few days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
Scottish: perhaps a habitational name from Rerrick (Kirkcudbrightshire), itself from Old Norse hreyrr ‘boundary, cairn’ + eik ‘oak’ or perhaps, with modification by Gaelic-speakers, vík ‘bay’.
English (Surrey and Middlesex): habitational name from Redwick in Gloucestershire from Old English hrēod ‘reed’ + wīc ‘outlying settlement’.
North German: variant of Reddich, an occupational name for a greengrocer or vegetable dealer, from Middle Low German redik ‘radish’. The surname Reddick is very rare in Germany; in North America it may also be an altered form of any of its variants and other similar (like-sounding) surnames (compare Redick ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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