When Lonnie Lee Wilson was born on 8 February 1901, in Claiborne, Mississippi, United States, his father, Moses Hill Wilson, was 30 and his mother, Martha Bell "Mattie" Cooper, was 27. He married Mary Elizabeth Jobe on 14 February 1920, in Vicksburg, Warren, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Beat 3, Claiborne, Mississippi, United States for about 20 years and Beat 4, Claiborne, Mississippi, United States in 1940. He died on 20 June 1985, in Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Hermanville, Claiborne, Mississippi, United States.
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A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
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.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
English: from the Middle English personal name Will + patronymic -son ‘son of Will’. Will was a very common medieval short form of William . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
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