Brief Life History of William Robert
When William Robert Beasley was born on 4 August 1900, in Copiah, Mississippi, United States, his father, William Robert Beasley, was 33 and his mother, Emma Florence Middleton, was 33. He had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Annie May Brent. He lived in Beat 2, Copiah, Mississippi, United States in 1930 and Beat 1, Copiah, Mississippi, United States in 1940. He died on 24 May 1969, in Hazlehurst, Copiah, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Galilee Cemetery, Rockport, Copiah, Mississippi, United States.
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- Robters W Beasley, "United States Census, 1930"
- William Robert Beasley, "Mississippi, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"
- William Beasley, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop
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.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
English:
variant of Bisley, a habitational name from any of the places called Bisley in Gloucestershire and Surrey (the former named with the Old English personal name Bisa + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, the later named with either a personal name or Old English bysce ‘copse, bushes’ + lēah), or Bisseley (a lost place in Coventry, Warwickshire).
habitational name from a place in Lancashire named Beesley, probably named with Old English bēos ‘bent grass’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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