Brief Life History of Sallie Etta
When Sallie Etta Hall was born in 1891, her father, Virgil Miller Hall, was 39 and her mother, Sarah A Tigrett, was 27. She married Leonard Lowrey Smith in Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Ripley, Tippah, Mississippi, United States in 1920 and Tupelo, Lee, Mississippi, United States in 1930. She died in 1978, at the age of 87, and was buried in Tupelo, Lee, Mississippi, United States.
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- Sallie E Smith in household of James A Helums, "United States Census, 1910"
- Sallie Etta Hall, "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979"
- Mrs Sally Smith in entry for Leonard R Smith, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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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.
1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop
When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.
Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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