When Lettie Ruth Goodman was born on 11 March 1893, in Smyth, Virginia, United States, her father, Daniel Thomas Goodman, was 37 and her mother, Mary Ann Taylor, was 31. She married Rufus Carmel Brooks on 28 August 1913, in Smyth, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Marion, Smyth, Virginia, United States in 1930 and Marion District, Smyth, Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 19 September 1985, in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, United States.
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On May 30, 18944 the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument was unveiled. It is 73 feet high and over looks Libby Hill Park. the statue represents the 13 Confederate States.
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.
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
English: from the Middle English personal name Godeman, Old English Gōdmann, composed of the elements gōd ‘good’ or god ‘god’ + man ‘man’.
English: status name from Middle English gode ‘good’ + man ‘man’, in part from use as a term for the master of a household. In Scotland the term denoted a landowner who held his land not directly from the crown but from a feudal vassal of the king.
English: from the Middle English personal name Gudmund, Godmund (from the Old English personal name Gūthmund, composed of the elements gūth ‘battle’ + mund ‘protection’, or the Old Norse cognate Guthmundr).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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