Brief Life History of Hattie C.
When Hattie C. White was born on 19 February 1873, in Marshall, Tennessee, United States, her father, Benjamin Franklin White, was 44 and her mother, Mary Josephine Cook, was 31. She married Horace Merritt on 21 December 1892, in Marshall, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Galena Township, Jasper, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, United States in 1910. She died on 19 September 1911, in Marshall, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Webb City, Jasper, Missouri, United States.
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- Hattie Merritt in household of Unreadable Merritt, "United States Census, 1900"
- Hattie C White, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Hattie W White Merritt, "Find A Grave Index"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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