When Ada Lee Ellis was born on 21 September 1904, in Georgia, United States, her father, Robert Lee Ellis, was 21 and her mother, Mary Jane Fowler, was 18. She had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters with Jeptha Wiley "Jep" Fowler. She lived in Calhoun, Gordon, Georgia, United States in 1910 and District 1305, Whitfield, Georgia, United States in 1920. She died on 23 June 1988, in Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Holly Creek Cemetery, Chatsworth, Murray, Georgia, United States.
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The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Historical Boundaries: 1906: Murray, Georgia, United States
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
English: from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French vernacular form of Elias, the Latin and New Testament Greek form of Hebrew Eliyahu; see Elijah and compare Elias , Lias , Ely .
English: possibly in some instances from the Middle English female personal name Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth .
Welsh: from Elis, a shortened form of the Welsh personal name Elisse (earlier Elisedd, a derivative of elus ‘kindly, benevolent’). As usual in Welsh, the stress in Elisse is on the penultimate syllable -li-, which shifts to initial El- when the name is shortened to Elis. It later became confused with Ellis in 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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