When Jane Ruth Messick was born on 10 December 1914, in Mountain Park, Kiowa, Oklahoma, United States, her father, James Ethan Messick, was 26 and her mother, Martha Lucinda Hancock, was 26. She married William Allen Treadwell on 6 September 1933, in Jackson, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 27 November 2009, in Snyder, Kiowa, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Mountain Park Cemetery, Mountain Park, Kiowa, Oklahoma, United States.
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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.
A farmer’s revolt known as the Green Corn Rebellion resulted due to frustration toward landowners and local authorities. A small group of wealthy landowners obtained property by fraudulent means which forced many Oklahoma farmers into a tenancy in 1917. Many farmers joined the Working Class Union who became hostile toward county officials. Hundreds of men gathered on the farm of John Spears in Sasakwa where they planned to march to Washington to repeal the draft act and end the war. Their plan included eating green corn and beef along the way, which gave the rebellion its name. An informer alerted authorities and their effort was halted as several groups collided with the rebels, firing shots into the air. The men scattered, three were killed, over 400 were arrested, and 150 were convicted and received federal prison sentences.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Americanized form of an unidentified French surname, presumably Messac: habitational name from any of several places with this name (e.g. in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany), named in Gallo-Roman times as the estate of someone called Mettius. Compare Messex and Mezick .
In some cases an Americanized form of Croatian (and possibly also Bosniak) Mesić and Mešić, Slovenian Mešič (see Mesic , compare Mesick 2).
In some cases an Americanized form of Slovak Mesík: unexplained. Compare Mesick 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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