Brief Life History of Minnie Elliot
When Minnie Elliot Gold was born on 5 November 1880, in Cleveland, North Carolina, United States, her father, Williamson Fortune Gold, was 44 and her mother, Margaret Gordon Elliott, was 32. She married James Thomas Justice on 13 May 1903, in Cleveland, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Township 6, Cleveland, North Carolina, United States in 1900 and Kernersville Township, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States in 1920. She died on 11 January 1930, in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Mount Gur Cemetery, Kernersville, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States.
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- Minnie Gold in household of W Fortune Gold, "United States Census, 1900"
- Minnie Gold, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Minnie Elliott Justice, "North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930"
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World Events (8)
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
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Emanuel, Meyer, Mayer, Hyman, Ari, Avram, Mendel, Moshe, Shraga, Aviva.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Gold, Yiddish gold ‘gold’. In North America it is often a shortened form of one of the many compound artificial names of which Gold is the first element.
English and German: from Middle English go(u)ld, or Old English and Old High German gold ‘gold’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in gold, i.e. a refiner, jeweler, or gilder, or as a nickname for someone who either had many gold possessions or bright yellow hair.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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