When Lila Mae Still was born on 27 September 1896, in Barnwell, Barnwell, South Carolina, United States, her father, William Daniel Still, was 45 and her mother, Caroline Nix, was 38. She married Clarendon Cooper Black on 4 March 1924, in Barnwell, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Georges Creek Township, Barnwell, South Carolina, United States for about 30 years and Blackville Township, Barnwell, South Carolina, United States in 1940. She died on 18 October 1979, in Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Reedy Branch Baptist Church Cemetery, Barnwell, Barnwell, South Carolina, United States.
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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.
South Carolina native, father to 13 children, and a local farmer, Anthony Crawford, is lynched on October 21, 1916, in Abbeyville, South Carolina. The lynching is followed after Crawford has an arguement with a white storekeeper.
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
English and German: nickname for a calm man, from Middle English, Middle High German stille ‘calm, silent, still’. The German name may also have denoted a (deaf) mute, from the same word in the sense ‘silent’.
English: variant of Stile .
English: variant of Stell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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