Brief Life History of Mary Louise
When Mary Louise Hensley was born on 17 February 1868, in Greene, Tennessee, United States, her father, Baxter J. Tittle, was 23 and her mother, Matilda A Hensley, was 26. She married William Brownlow Waldrop on 22 December 1885, in Madison, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Limestone Springs, Greene, Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Civil District 3, Greene, Tennessee, United States in 1900. In 1880, at the age of 12, her occupation is listed as servant at age 12 in Greene, Tennessee, United States. She died on 1 June 1917, in Marshall, Madison, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Sprinkle Cemetery, Mars Hill, Madison, North Carolina, United States.
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- Mollie Wardrup in household of William Wardrup, "United States Census, 1900"
- Mollie Hensley, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Margret Louise Hensley, "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1973"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Hensley in East Worlington (Devon), from the Old English personal name Hēahmund (genitive Hēahmundes) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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