Brief Life History of Willie Sue
When Willie Sue Wallace was born on 20 October 1905, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, her father, James William Wallace, was 29 and her mother, Ida Dean Gooch, was 29. She married Shalor Owen O'Bryant on 28 November 1934, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Election Precinct 10 Florence, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States in 1940 and Colbert, Alabama, United States in 1950. She died on 13 June 1950, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Stoney Point Cemetery, Florence, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States.
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- Willie S Obryant, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Willie Sue Wallace - Published information: birth-name: Willie Sue Wallace
- Willie Sue O'Bryant, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
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World Events (8)
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
1906 · Licencing Butchers
A law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat being sold as food, and ensures that the meat is slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English: variant of Wallis , especially in Scotland, where the name was introduced from the Welsh Marches by a family of tenants of the Stewarts in the 12th century.
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish (Ashkenazic) surnames, e.g. Wallach .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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