Brief Life History of Minnie Lee
When Minnie Lee Andrews was born on 30 October 1872, in Greensboro, Greene, Georgia, United States, her father, John David Andrews, was 26 and her mother, Cornelia Frances Merritt, was 19. She married John Thomas Andrews on 14 December 1893, in Greene, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in District 143, Greene, Georgia, United States in 1880 and District 141, Greene, Georgia, United States for about 40 years. She died on 6 March 1954, in Greene, Georgia, United States, at the age of 81.
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- Minnie A Moon, "United States 1950 Census"
- Minnie L. Andrews, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Minnie Moon in household of Willie L Moon, "United States Census, 1940"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1893 · The Last Public Hanging in Georgia
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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Andrew , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Andrzejewski , Slovenian Andrejčič, Serbian and Croatian Andrić (see Andric ), and Czech Ondráček (see Ondracek ).
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis or Irish Mac Aindriú, see McAndrew .
History: This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport's company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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