Brief Life History of Rockie Lee
When Rockie Lee Tuppence was born on 22 May 1914, in New Kent, Virginia, United States, her father, John Tuppence, was 22 and her mother, Emma Morris, was 17. She married Earnest Dandridge on 19 December 1931, in New Kent, Virginia, United States. She lived in Weir Creek District, New Kent, Virginia, United States in 1920. She died on 14 April 2009, in Redlands, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in New Kent, New Kent, Virginia, United States.
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- Roche L Tuppance in household of John Tuppance, "United States Census, 1920"
- Rockie Lee Tuppence Dandridge, "Find A Grave Index"
- Rockie Lee Tuppence in entry for Earnest Dandridge, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
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World Events (8)
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.
1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility
Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
pet form of Lachlan .
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