When Katie Jewel Farmer was born on 6 March 1906, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Lee Cullom Farmer, was 29 and her mother, Lavina Arbell Bellar, was 26. She married Melvin Alex Armistead on 17 September 1926, in Smith, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Civil District 16, Smith, Tennessee, United States for about 30 years and Smith, Tennessee, United States in 1950. She died on 17 December 1977, at the age of 71, and was buried in Gordonsville Cemetery, Gordonsville, Smith, Tennessee, United States.
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The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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