When Martha Ada Cantrell was born on 18 January 1871, in Smithville, DeKalb, Tennessee, United States, her father, Aaron Cantrell, was 35 and her mother, Sarah "Sallie" Love, was 23. She married William Hall Odom on 10 January 1889, in DeKalb, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Civil District 9, DeKalb, Tennessee, United States for about 40 years. She died on 26 August 1959, in DeKalb, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Whorton Springs Cemetery, Smithville, DeKalb, Tennessee, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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.
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.
English (of Norman origin): from Old French canterelle, chanterelle, a diminutive of c(h)anteor ‘singer’. Compare Cantor . It was used as an alternative name for Chantecler the cock in medieval French versions of the folk story of Reynard the Fox (Le Roman de Renard).
English: sometimes a variant of Quintrell .
English: occasionally, perhaps a habitational name from Cantrell in Devon, early recorded as Canterhulle, named from an unexplained first element + Old English hyll ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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