Brief Life History of Metty Magnolia
When Metty Magnolia Perry was born on 28 August 1876, in Westville, Chariton, Missouri, United States, her father, George Allen Perry, was 35 and her mother, Margaret Elvira Clemmons, was 30. She married Joseph Nolan Landreth on 15 November 1891, in Marceline, Linn, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in College Mound, Macon, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Marceline Township, Linn, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 3 September 1930, in Marceline, Linn, Missouri, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Mount Olive Cemetery, Marceline Township, Linn, Missouri, United States.
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- Nola Landreth, "United States Census, 1930"
- Metty Magnolia Perry Landreth, "Find A Grave Index"
- Magnolia Perry in entry for Joseph Landuth, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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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
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Herry ‘son of Herry’, a variant of the personal name Harry (see Harris ).
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a pear tree (Middle English piri(e), peri(e), puri(e), Old English pirige, pyrige), or a habitational name for someone who owned or came from a place so named. This surname and a number of variants have been established in Ireland since the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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