Brief Life History of Rena Lee
When Rena Lee Jennings was born on 27 August 1894, in Ellis, Texas, United States, her father, George Washington Jennings, was 39 and her mother, Dolly Audrey Martin, was 34. She married Robert Thomas Cooper on 14 December 1933, in Ellis, Texas, United States. She lived in Beat 5, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States for about 10 years and Justice Precinct 1, Ellis, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 21 April 1976, in Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, United States.
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- Rena L Cooper in household of Robert Cooper, "United States Census, 1940"
- Rena Lee Jennings, "Texas Births and Christenings, 1840-1981"
- Rena Jennings, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
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World Events (8)
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""."
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Jenning , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
German: patronymic from a pet form (see Jenning ) of the personal name Johannes (see John ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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