When Mildred L Purvis was born on 5 September 1915, in Florence, South Carolina, United States, her father, Haywood Herbert Purvis, was 32 and her mother, Florence Lee Armfield, was 32. She had at least 1 son with Allen E Eagerton. She lived in McMillen Township, Florence, South Carolina, United States for about 20 years. She died on 11 January 2003, in Florence, Florence, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 87.
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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.
South Carolina native, father to 13 children, and a local farmer, Anthony Crawford, is lynched on October 21, 1916, in Abbeyville, South Carolina. The lynching is followed after Crawford has an arguement with a white storekeeper.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Scottish, English (Midlothian, Northumberland, and Durham; of Norman origin): status name or occupational name from an unrecorded Anglo-Norman French purveis, probably a derivative of purveoir ‘to foresee; to provide (supplies)’ and synonymous with Anglo-Norman French purveiour ‘steward who provides food and supplies to a royal or monastic household’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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