Brief Life History of Martha Alice
When Martha Alice Leatherwood was born on 1 February 1868, in Haywood, North Carolina, United States, her father, John Caswell "Cass" Leatherwood, was 35 and her mother, Telitha Aveline Haynes, was 25. She married Virgil Pal McCracken on 30 November 1886, in Haywood, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Crabtree, Haywood, North Carolina, United States for about 20 years and Beaverdam Township, Haywood, North Carolina, United States in 1950. She died on 15 March 1959, in Haywood, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Bon-A-Venture Cemetery, West Canton, Haywood, North Carolina, United States.
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- Alice McCracken, "United States Census, 1950"
- Allice Leatherwood, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Alice Mccracken, "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1877 · Last Troops Leave
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
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: perhaps an altered form of Leatherhead, a habitational name from Leatherhead (Surrey), which probably derives from Old English lēode ‘folk, people’ + ride ‘riding, place suitable for riding, bridle path’, or alternatively a habitational name from Lythwood in Shropshire, which is named from Old English hlith ‘slope’ + wudu ‘wood’.
History: Zachariah Leatherwood, a son of John Leatherwood, was born in Prince William County, VA c. 1735. After the revolutionary war, he settled in Spartanburg County, SC with his second wife, Jane Calvert, and many of his fourteen children.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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