Brief Life History of Lillie Dixon
When Lillie Dixon Larkin was born on 26 August 1879, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Andrew Jackson Larkins, was 34 and her mother, Harriett Wynn, was 20. She married George Berry Lyell on 27 February 1895, in Hickman, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Civil District 6, Dickson, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Dickson, Tennessee, United States in 1930. She died on 18 August 1936, at the age of 56.
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- Lillie D Lyles in household of George R Lyles, "United States Census, 1930"
- L D Larkins, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Lilly Dixon Lyell, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"
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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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
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: from a medieval personal name, a diminutive of Lar-, Lor-, both pet forms of Lawrence , formed with the addition of the Middle English suffix -kin.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Lorcáin ‘descendant of Lorcán’, a personal name from a diminutive of lorc ‘fierce, cruel’. This Gaelic name was often regarded as an equivalent of English Lawrence .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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