Brief Life History of Martha Lee
When Martha Lee Traylor was born on 20 May 1836, in Georgia, United States, her father, Tillman Traylor, was 39 and her mother, Lucy Walker, was 27. She had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Laban Sylvanus Suggs. She lived in Wynnewood, Garvin, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Carter, Oklahoma, United States in 1920. She died on 30 March 1923, in Sugden, Jefferson, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Sugden Cemetery, Sugden, Jefferson, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Martha Sugg, "United States Census, 1920"
- Martha Lee Traylor Suggs, "Find A Grave Index"
- Martha Suggs, "United States Census, 1910"
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1838 · Orders No. 25 Removes Cherokees
A small group of Cherokees from Georgia voluntarily migrated to the Indian Territory. The remaining Cherokees in Georgia resisted the mounting pressure to leave. In 1838, U.S. President Martin Van Buren ordered U.S. troops to remove the Cherokee Nation. The troops gathered the Cherokees and marched them and other Native Americans from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama along what is now known as “The Trail of Tears.” Approximately 5,000 Cherokees died on their way to Indian Territory.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Name Meaning
English (Essex, Herefordshire and Shropshire): unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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