Brief Life History of Joseph "Joe" Lee
Joseph "Joe" Lee Woods was born on 21 January 1894, in Pauls Valley, Garvin, Oklahoma, United States as the son of Mitchell. He married Bertha Maddon on 30 December 1916, in Garvin, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Grady, Oklahoma, United States in 1935 and Chino Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1940. He died on 27 August 1985, in Sun City, Riverside, California, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Perris, Riverside, California, United States.
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- Joe Woods, "United States Census, 1940"
- Joe Woods, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
- Joe Lee Woods, "BillionGraves Index"
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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.
1907
Oklahoma is the 46th state.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Wood with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: adopted as a translation of Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’ (see Quill ), or in Ulster of Mac Con Coille ‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’, which has also been mistranslated Cox , as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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