Brief Life History of Martha Pinkie
When Martha Pinkie Rhodes was born on 9 April 1889, in Cainsville, Wilson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Thomas Lafayette Rhodes, was 30 and her mother, Susan Tennessee Sims, was 39. She married Ollie Clifton Stephens on 9 September 1905, in Rutherford, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Wilson, Tennessee, United States in 1930 and Civil District 16, Rutherford, Tennessee, United States in 1940. She died on 29 November 1967, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Bradleys Creek Cemetery, Milton, Rutherford, Tennessee, United States.
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- Pinkie Stephens in household of Clifton R Stephens, "United States Census, 1940"
- Pinkie Rhodes, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Pinkie Rhodes Stephens, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1896 · Utah becomes a state
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1910 · The BSA is Made
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
Name Meaning
English:
either a topographic name for someone who lived by ‘(the) woodland clearings’, plural form of Middle English rode (Old English rod, rodu), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place so named, principally Rhodes in Bury (Lancashire) or possibly from one of the many minor places in Yorkshire similarly named, or Rhodes Minnis (Kent). The Yorkshire name sometimes alternates with the singular form (see Rhode and Rode ). The Rh- spelling was introduced in the 16th and 17th centuries by clerks with a classical education, who associated the name with the Greek island of Rhodes, famous in ancient history and mythology. There is also no connection with modern English road (Old English rād ‘riding’), which was not used to denote a thoroughfare until the 16th century. The surname is particularly common in Yorkshire and Lancashire but occurs with various spellings in smaller numbers widely across England.
variant of Rhode , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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