When Fannie Jane Farmer was born on 31 January 1863, in Alabama, United States, her father, Alexander C Farmer, was 27 and her mother, Mary Frances Moreman, was 23. She married James Franklin Brogdon on 18 November 1879, in Hillsboro, Scott, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 7 July 1934, in Harperville, Scott, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Hillsboro Methodist Cemetery, Hillsboro, Scott, Mississippi, United States.
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In 1877, the Mississippi State Board of Health was established to protect and advance health throughout the state. There are several different categories that fall under their watch such as disease, environment, injury, standard care, shots, keep records, and more.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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