When Leila Amanda Hayes was born on 7 September 1896, in Tomotla, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, her father, Jefferson Theodore Hayes, was 35 and her mother, Amanda C. Beal, was 36. She lived in Murphy Township, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States in 1940 and Marble, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States in 1973. She died on 23 June 1973, in Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Marble, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States.
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In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
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.
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Irish (Cork): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAodha ‘descendant of Aodh’, a personal name meaning ‘fire’. Compare McCoy . In some cases especially in County Wexford, the surname is of English origin (see below), having been taken to Ireland by the Normans.
English: variant of Hay , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: topographic name from the plural form of Middle English hay(e), heye, heghe ‘enclosure’ (see Hay ), sometimes used as a collective noun for a farm, especially in Devon, where it is a frequent minor placename. Compare Hain .
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