When Lillie Mae Abel was born on 27 April 1899, in Brown Cemetery, White, Tennessee, United States, her father, William Edgar Abel, was 23 and her mother, Beulah Ann Smith, was 21. She married Thomas Marion Earles on 22 August 1916, in Warren, Tennessee, United States. She lived in Warren, Tennessee, United States in 1935 and Civil District 1, Warren, Tennessee, United States in 1940. She died on 4 April 1971, in Trenton, Dade, Georgia, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Centertown, Warren, Tennessee, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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.
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.
English, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, French, Spanish, and Polish; Slovak (mainly Ábel) and Czech (also Ábel): from the Biblical personal name Abel, Slovak Ábel, which was used in continental Europe from the sixth century. After the Norman Conquest it was introduced to England and Scotland, where it had a brief currency in the 12th and 13th centuries before being revived in England after the Reformation. In the Book of Genesis Abel is a son of Adam, murdered by his brother Cain (Genesis 4:1–8). In Christian tradition he is regarded as a representative of suffering innocence. The Hebrew form of the name is Hebel (Latinized as Abel), from a vocabulary word meaning ‘breath’.
German: from the personal name Abel, a pet form of Albrecht .
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