When Bertha Dewoody was born on 22 January 1897, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, her father, Rufus Dewoody, was 43 and her mother, Mary Y Gray, was 40. She died on 2 May 1900, at the age of 3.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
Perhaps an Americanized form of Dutch Van der Woude, see Vanderwoude .
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