Brief Life History of Mabel Alice
When Mabel Alice Redding was born in October 1883, in Harris, Georgia, United States, her father, George Anderson Redding, was 34 and her mother, Mary Emma Howard, was 29. She married Joseph Neal Lennard on 11 January 1911, in Harris, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in District 695, Harris, Georgia, United States for about 10 years and District 774, Muscogee, Georgia, United States for about 36 years. She died on 6 November 1956, in Fulton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 73.
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- Mabel Lenard in household of J N Lenard, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mabel Redding - Government record: birth-name: Mabel Redding
- Mabel Alice Redding, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1893 · The Last Public Hanging in Georgia
The last public hanging in Georgia was on September 28, 1893. The General Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law, Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Reading, the county seat of Berkshire, from Old English Rēadingas ‘people of Rēad(a)’, a byname meaning ‘red’.
Irish: from Ó Rodáin ‘descendant of Rodán’, a personal name derived from a diminutive of rod ‘strong, lively, spirited’. Anglicized forms with other vowels, as in Rudden, Reddan, may be derived from a variant Ó Roidín. Current Anglicized Irish forms usually have a double d.
German: patronymic from any of the ancient Germanic personal names with the first element rād ‘counsel, advice’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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