Brief Life History of Dannie Mae
When Dannie Mae Worsham was born in November 1891, in Taylor, Georgia, United States, her father, Zachariah Job Worsham, was 33 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Carswell, was 22. She married William Archie Sellers on 4 July 1909, in Mitchell, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Branchville, Mitchell, Georgia, United States in 1920. She died on 29 January 1976, in Mitchell, Georgia, United States, at the age of 84.
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- Dannie M Sellers, "United States Census, 1920"
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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.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places called Worsham, in Oxfordshire and Sussex. The first is named from the Old English personal name Wulfmǣr + hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’; the second is from an unattested Old English personal name Wyrtel + hā.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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