Brief Life History of Emma
When Emma Winstead was born on 17 September 1869, in Nash, North Carolina, United States, her father, Neverson Columbus Winstead, was 26 and her mother, Mary Ann Susan Wells, was 26. She married Sidney Gray Pridgen on 30 December 1891, in Coopers Township, Nash, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Coopers Township, Nash, North Carolina, United States for about 40 years. She died on 25 March 1921, in Nash, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Nash, North Carolina, United States.
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- Emma Pridgeon in household of Syd Y Pridgeon, "United States Census, 1920"
- Emily A E Winstead, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Emma Pridgen, "North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1877 · Last Troops Leave
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name, perhaps from Wanstead in Greater London (formerly Esses), recorded in Domesday Book as Wenesteda ‘site (Old English stede) by a mound (Old English wænn) or where wagons (Old English wǣn) are kept’, but more likely from Winestead in East Yorkshire, named from Old English wīf ‘wife’ or a female personal name Wīfa + stede ‘homestead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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