When Anna Lee Merrill was born on 3 March 1881, in Georgia, United States, her father, Robert Edward Merrill, was 26 and her mother, Elizabeth Austin, was 26. She married Henry Oliver Gaston in 1901, in Randolph, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in White Plains, Calhoun, Alabama, United States in 1940 and Election Precinct 20 Oxanna, Calhoun, Alabama, United States in 1950. She died on 26 April 1954, in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Randolph, Alabama, United States.
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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.
The last public hanging in Georgia was on September 28, 1893. The General Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law, Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Welsh and English: from a female personal name of Celtic origin, found in Welsh as Meriel and Meryl and in Irish as Muirgheal, earlier Muirgel (‘sea-bright’).
English: habitational name from one or more of the many places whose names derive from Middle English mirie, merie, murie ‘merry, pleasant’ (Old English myrge) + hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll), including two places called Merry Hill in Staffordshire and a third in Hertfordshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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