Carrie Lee Shaddrick

Brief Life History of Carrie Lee

When Carrie Lee Shaddrick was born on 30 August 1894, in Anna, Union, Illinois, United States, her father, Rev John David Shaddrick, was 22 and her mother, Mamie A Spurr, was 23. She married George Austin Brubaker about 1916. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Du Quoin, Perry, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Robinson, Crawford, Illinois, United States for about 20 years. She died in 1971, at the age of 77, and was buried in Robinson, Crawford, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Austin Brubaker
1893–1984
Carrie Lee Shaddrick
1894–1971
Marriage: about 1916
George Robert Brubaker
1917–
Charles David Brubaker
1919–1921
Susan Mary Brubaker
1933–2002

Sources (7)

  • Carrie Lee Brubaker, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Carrie Lee Shaddrick Brubaker, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Carrie Lu Shaddrick in entry for Chas David Brubaker, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"

World Events (8)

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.

1910 · Boy Scouts of America

When W. D. Boyce was visiting London, he encountered a boy that helped him find his destination. The boy refused the tip that Boyce offered to him and told him that he was just doing his daily good turn. Being inspired, Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America to help teach young men how to have an attitude of service always. Since its foundation, The Boy Scouts of America has become one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States. Around 110 million people have been participants at some time in their life. The BSA was established to help young people make better choices in life and showing selflessness by serving the community.

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:

variant (especially in Essex) of Sheldrick , perhaps influenced by the personal name Shadrach (see 2 below).

apparently in some rare and late instances (especially in Wales) a vernacular form of the Old Testament personal name Shadrach, the name of one of the ‘three holy children’, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who were cast into a fiery furnace and not harmed (Daniel 1–3). Shadrach derives from a Chaldean Shudur Aku ‘command of the moon god’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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