Brief Life History of Virginia Lee
When Virginia Lee Bradley was born on 2 June 1898, in Dorsey, Itawamba, Mississippi, United States, her father, William Wesley Bradley, was 36 and her mother, Francis Adella Wigginton, was 35. She married Curtis Earl Ganaway on 10 October 1925, in Tupelo, Lee, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Beat 3, Itawamba, Mississippi, United States in 1940 and Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States in 1950. She died on 28 April 1987, in Itawamba, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Itawamba, Mississippi, United States.
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- Virgie L Ganaway, "United States 1950 Census"
- Virgie L. Bradley Ganaway, "Find A Grave Index"
- Virgie Bradley in entry for Carlos E Ganaway, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places throughout England named Bradley, from Old English brād ‘broad’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Scottish: habitational name from Braidlie in Roxburghshire.
Irish (Ulster): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Brolcháin ‘descendant of Brolacháin’, a diminutive of the personal name Brólach, compare Brawley . This was a learned family.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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