Brief Life History of Georgia
When Georgia Patrick was born on 12 September 1896, in Mississippi, United States, her father, George Washington Patrick, was 32 and her mother, Martha Lavinia "Lulu" McMillan, was 27. She lived in Grady, Oklahoma, United States in 1935 and Altamont, Effingham, Illinois, United States in 1940. She died on 31 October 1989, in Medina, Medina, Ohio, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Booneville Cemetery, Booneville, Prentiss, Mississippi, United States.
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- Georgia P Cunningham in household of William W Cunningham, "United States Census, 1930"
- Georgie Patrick Cunningham, "BillionGraves Index"
- Georgia P Cunningham, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1907
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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.
1921 · Tulsa Race Massacre
By 1921, Tulsa was a booming city with a population of over one hundred thousand, with ten thousand African Americans in the Greenwood District. Crime rates in Tulsa soared and vigilantism was present. An incident occurred with Dick Rowland, an African American shoe shiner, and Sara Page, a white elevator operator. Reports claim Rowland stepped on Page’s foot and she let out a scream. The newspaper reported Rowland attempted to rape Page. Rowland was arrested and white vigilantes demanded the sheriff to hand over Rowland for lynching. An armed group of African American men went to the courthouse to aid in protecting Rowland from the mob. The group was turned away and a shot was fired between the white and African American groups, which ignited a riot. While buildings in Tulsa were burned, a major effort by whites focused mainly on the Greenwood District which was burned to the ground and many were shot. Over 30 people were killed and many were injured in the riots.
Name Meaning
Irish, Scottish, and English (of Norman origin): from the Anglo-Norman French, Middle English, and Older Scots personal name Patrick (Old Irish Patraicc), derived from Latin Patricius ‘son of a noble father, member of the patrician class’. This was the name of a Christian saint, a 5th-century Romano-Briton who became the apostle and patron saint of Ireland, and it was largely as a result of his fame that the personal name was so popular from the Middle Ages onward. In Ireland the surname is usually Scottish in origin, from Scottish settlers in Ulster in the 17th century. See also Peden and McPadden , derived from pet forms of Old Irish Patraicc.
Scottish and Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Scottish and Irish Gaelic Mac Phádraig ‘son of Patrick’.
English: variant of Partridge .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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