When Rev. Norman Cornelius Reed was born on 9 July 1876, in Ashe, North Carolina, United States, his father, Rev. Andrew Jackson ‘Andy’ Reed, was 34 and his mother, Nancy Caroline Richardson, was 25. He married Leota Mae Sturgill on 26 March 1898, in Ashe, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Tunstall District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States in 1930 and Mount Airy Township, Surry, North Carolina, United States for about 11 years. He died on 5 December 1951, in Surry, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Little Pine Church of the Brethren, Alleghany, North Carolina, United States.
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In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
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.
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.
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English and Older Scots red(e) ‘red’, no doubt denoting someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion.
English: from Middle English ride, rede, rude (Old English rīed, rēod, rȳd) ‘clearing’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in or near a clearing, or habitational, for someone who lived at one of a number of places so named, including Rede Court in Strood (Kent), Rides in Eastchurch (Kent), Ride Way in Ewhurst (Surrey), and Reed Farm in Wadhurst (Sussex). The word is particularly common in the southeastern counties of England, from Kent to the Isle of Wight. See also Rider and Reader .
English: habitational name from Read (Lancashire), Reed (Hertfordshire), or Rede (Suffolk). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English rǣge ‘roe, female roe deer’ + hēafod ‘head’. The Hertfordshire placename derives from Old English rȳhth ‘rough piece of ground’. The etymology of the Suffolk placename is uncertain.
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