Brief Life History of Willie Tom
When Willie Tom Veazey was born on 5 October 1904, in Warren, Georgia, United States, his father, George Ray Veazey, was 28 and his mother, Mattie Wright, was 18. He married Maxine Brazzeal in 1933, in Wakulla, Florida, United States. He lived in District 159, Warren, Georgia, United States in 1910. He died in 1985, at the age of 81, and was buried in Thomson, McDuffie, Georgia, United States.
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- W Tom Veasy, "United States Census, 1940"
- W T Veazey, "Florida Marriages, 1830-1993"
- Willie T Veazey, "Georgia Death Index, 1933-1998"
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1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
1906 · The Atlanta Race Riot
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22 through September 24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by pre-existing racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next few days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English (Rutland): nickname from Anglo-Norman French enveisé ‘playful’ (Old French envoisié), Latinized as invesiatus (compare medieval Latin invasus ‘possessed by a demon’) and paralleled by lascivus ‘wanton’. The first syllable was lost early, resulting in numerous dialectal and orthographic variants; only Lenfestey preserves the fuller form, with an intrusive medial -t-. There has also been some confusion with Vessey .
History: John Veazey came from England to MD in the late 17th century. Thomas Ward Veazey (born 1774) was a MD legislator and planter.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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