George Thomas Dudley

Brief Life History of George Thomas

When George Thomas Dudley was born on 1 February 1897, in Humphreys, Tennessee, United States, his father, Liberty Hickman Dudley, was 33 and his mother, Lucinda Margaret Chandler, was 37. He married Olivia Pearl Blackwell on 22 December 1919, in Hickman, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Civil District 4, Perry, Tennessee, United States in 1920 and Civil District 10, Benton, Tennessee, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1921. He died on 14 April 1940, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Coble, Hickman, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Thomas Dudley
1897–1940
Olivia Pearl Blackwell
1897–1972
Marriage: 22 December 1919
Dorothy Halfacre Dudley
1931–

Sources (13)

  • Geo Thomas Dudley, "United States Census, 1940"
  • G T Dudley, "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
  • George Thomas Dudley, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

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World Events (8)

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1904 · Belle Isle Aquarium

The Belle Isle Aquarium is a public aquarium located in Belle Isle Park in Detroit. It opened on August 18, 1904, and was the oldest continually operating public aquarium in North America when it closed on April 3, 2005. The aquarium reopened to the public on August 18, 2012, and is now run entirely by volunteers

1909 · The NAACP is formed

Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.

Name Meaning

English (West Midlands): habitational name from Dudley in Worcestershire, recorded as Duddeleye, Doddeleye in the 13th and 14th centuries, named from the Old English personal name Dudda (see Dodd 1) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

Irish (southern Ireland): in Ireland, when not the English name, it was adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Dubhdáleithe ‘descendant of Dubhdáleithe’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + ‘two’ + léithe ‘sides’.

Americanized form of French Daudelin .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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