Brief Life History of Bertha
When Bertha Woodall was born on 13 September 1880, in Mississippi, United States, her father, Archibald Woodall, was 34 and her mother, Frances Victoria Burrell, was 21. She married William C. Murphree on 23 January 1900, in Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Beat 5, Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States for about 10 years. She died on 10 March 1917, in Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Coffeeville, Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States.
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- Bertha Murphree in household of William Murphree, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Bertha Woodall - Government record: birth-name: Bertha Woodall
- Bertha W Murphree, "Find A Grave Index"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English (mainly West Midlands): from Middle English wode ‘wood’ + halle ‘hall’ (Old English wudu + hall). The surname may be topographic, for a person who lived at a hall in a wood, or habitational, from one of the many places so named, such as Woodhall (Lincolnshire), Woodhall Farm in Wichenford (Worcestershire), Wood Hall in Risley (Derbyshire), Woodhall in Calverley (Yorkshire), or Woodall in Harthill (Yorkshire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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