Brief Life History of Emma Thedosia
When Emma Thedosia Woods was born on 1 June 1895, in Louisiana, United States, her father, Samuel Lee Woods, was 29 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Perkins, was 22. She had at least 2 daughters with John Henry Cox. She lived in Ward Six, Vernon, Louisiana, United States in 1900. She died on 3 November 1977, in Kountze, Hardin, Texas, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Village Mills, Hardin, Texas, United States.
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- Emma G Woods in household of Leo Woods, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Emma Thedosia Woods - Individual or family possessions: birth: 1 June 1895; Louisiana, United States
- Emmer Cox, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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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.
1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered
Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful "oil boom".
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Wood with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: adopted as a translation of Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’ (see Quill ), or in Ulster of Mac Con Coille ‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’, which has also been mistranslated Cox , as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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