When Edna Georgia Farthing was born on 7 December 1907, in Beaverdam Township, Watauga, North Carolina, United States, her father, Joseph Elmore Farthing, was 27 and her mother, Ida Mary "Polly" Harmon, was 27. She married Marshall Daniel Ward on 15 January 1928, in Laurel Creek Township, Watauga, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She died on 18 October 1993, in Ashe, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Zion Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Watauga, North Carolina, United States.
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Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg, Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina was established on September 4, 1918. It was used as one of three training camps used during WWI.
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
English:
from the Middle English personal name Farthein, Farthing, Ferthing (Old Norse Farthegn, late Old English Færthegn), composed of the elements far ‘ship, passage’ + thegn ‘warrior, nobleman, or retainer’.
habitational name from a place called in Middle English with ferthing (Old English fēorthing ‘fourth part, quarter’). Until 1960, when it was withdrawn, this was the name of the smallest British coin, worth one quarter of a penny. The same word was also used to denote a measure of land, normally one quarter of a virgate or other larger unit. The term is frequent in minor placenames in Sussex and is also found in Somerset and Devon.
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