When Loretta Thach Elder was born on 19 February 1898, in Winchester, Franklin, Tennessee, United States, her father, William Robert Elder Sr., was 42 and her mother, Hattie Belle Hawthorne, was 32. She married William Augustus Jeter Jr. on 22 November 1941, in Duval, Florida, United States. She lived in Civil District 8, Franklin, Tennessee, United States in 1910 and District 26, Glynn, Georgia, United States for about 5 years. She died on 12 October 1987, in Brunswick, Glynn, Georgia, United States, at the age of 89.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22 through September 24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by pre-existing racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next few days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Scottish: distinguishing nickname from Middle English and Older Scots elder ‘parent; older, senior person’, perhaps in some cases denoting the older of two bearers of the same personal name. It may have been used also to denote an elder of a church, a senior and respected member of the congregation. Compare Senior .
English: in southeastern England, this may be a variant of Helder .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Elter , which has the same meaning as 1 above.
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