Brief Life History of Iola
When Iola Lee was born on 30 October 1879, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Uriah Lee, was 33 and her mother, Sarelda Bell Kernell, was 31. She married George S. Minchey in 1898, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Civil District 3, Jackson, Tennessee, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. She died on 15 December 1969, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in East Fork, Sevier, Tennessee, United States.
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Sources (15)
- Iola Minchy, "United States Census, 1930"
- Iola B. Lee, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Iola Bobbie Lee Minchey, "Find A Grave Index"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Sang, Jae, Jong, Jung, Sung, Yong, Kyung, Seung, Dong, Kwang, Myung.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.
English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood, glade’, including Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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