Brief Life History of Mittie May
When Mittie May Sutton was born on 12 October 1895, in Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United States, her father, John Louis Sutton, was 29 and her mother, Mary Belle McGlothin, was 39. She married George Ivanhoe Cook on 29 April 1916, in Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Bales Township, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United States in 1900 and South Wichita Township, Lincoln, Oklahoma, United States in 1910.
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- Mittie Cook, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mittie Coak, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
- Mittie Sutton in household of John Poplin, "United States Census, 1910"
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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.
1907
Oklahoma is the 46th state.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called Sutton, named with Old English sūth ‘south, southern’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The English surname is also common in Ireland (Wexford, Kildare), where it has been established since the 13th century and Gaelicized as de Sutún.
Jewish (from the former Ottoman Empire, including Syria): unexplained.
English: topographic name from Middle English (bi) suthentune ‘(at the place to the) south of the village’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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