When Fatima Cantrell was born in November 1892, in DeKalb, Tennessee, United States, her father, Madison Hall Cantrell, was 41 and her mother, Martha Jane Potter, was 33. She lived in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States in 1910.
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The last public hanging in Georgia was on September 28, 1893. The General Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law, Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.
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Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
English (of Norman origin): from Old French canterelle, chanterelle, a diminutive of c(h)anteor ‘singer’. Compare Cantor . It was used as an alternative name for Chantecler the cock in medieval French versions of the folk story of Reynard the Fox (Le Roman de Renard).
English: sometimes a variant of Quintrell .
English: occasionally, perhaps a habitational name from Cantrell in Devon, early recorded as Canterhulle, named from an unexplained first element + Old English hyll ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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