When Willie Myrtle Gandy was born on 23 November 1896, in Titus, Texas, United States, her father, Walter Marion Gandy, was 24 and her mother, Daisy Mae Lane, was 16. She married Reuben Claude Capps on 21 December 1913, in Franklin, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Justice Precinct 3, Franklin, Texas, United States in 1900 and Justice Precinct 6, Titus, Texas, United States for about 30 years. She died on 27 August 1970, in Mount Pleasant, Titus, Texas, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Titus, Texas, United States.
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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.
"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
English:
possibly a nickname from Old French gandie ‘pretence, trick, trickery’.
alternatively, perhaps from a shortened form of the Old French personal name Gandin, a pet form of ancient Germanic names beginning with Wand- ‘turn, wind’ or more likely Gand- (of uncertain etymology). In Cheshire, Middle English variation between Gond- and Gand- is probably due to dialect rounding of original -a- before -n(d)-. In south England, however, the variation is difficult to explain (see 3 below).
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