When Lucille Daughdrill was born on 7 August 1900, in Mobile, Alabama, United States, her father, Edgar Poe Daughdrill, was 41 and her mother, Ida Mae Madden, was 36. She married Thomas Stone Leatherbury on 8 January 1929, in Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States. She lived in Meridian, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States in 1910 and Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States for about 10 years. She died on 22 January 1989, in Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States.
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President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.
B.B. King was born on September 16, 1925, in Itta Bean, Mississippi. He was a famous American blues singer, electric guitarist, and record producer. In 1987, he inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Altered form of English Dodrill .
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