When Daisy Bell Helms was born in November 1881, in Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States, her father, James Anthony Helms, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth Nancy Callahan, was 30. She had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with Thomas Dewitt Selby. She lived in Beat 1, Bolivar, Mississippi, United States in 1930 and Beat 3, Panola, Mississippi, United States in 1940.
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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.
When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
English (Northamptonshire): variant of Helm from the plural or, in some cases, a post-medieval variant, with excrescent -s.
North German and Dutch: patronymic from Helm 3-4.
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