Brief Life History of Willie Lee
When Willie Lee Reeder was born in February 1879, in Hopkinsville, Christian, Kentucky, United States, her father, William H. Reeder, was 31 and her mother, Sallie Gaines Randolph, was 22. She married John Robert Hopper on 30 July 1910, in Hopkinsville, Christian, Kentucky, United States. She lived in Christian, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years and Magisterial District 1 North Hopkinsville, Christian, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died on 15 September 1957, in Dawson Springs, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Hopkinsville, Christian, Kentucky, United States.
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- Willie Lee Harper in household of John R Harper, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Willie L Reeder - Government record: birth-name: Willie L Reeder
- Willie Reeder, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1892 · The Radio is invented
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for someone who used reeds as a roofing material (a thatcher), a derivative of Middle English rede ‘reed’ + -er. Compare Reed and Redman .
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a clearing, a derivative of Middle English rede, ride, rude ‘clearing’ (see Reed ) + -er, synonymous and interchangeable with atte Rede, atte Rude ‘at the clearing’. This type of name, composed of a topographic term + -er, is common in Kent, Surrey and Sussex, and it is also found in Essex.
Dutch and German: variant of Reder 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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