Damie Meeks

Female9 August 1909–20 September 1985

Brief Life History of Damie

When Damie Meeks was born on 9 August 1909, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Henderson "Hence" Meeks, was 27 and her mother, Thursie Jane Hamby, was 19. She lived in Grundy, Tennessee, United States in 1930. She died on 20 September 1985, at the age of 76.

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Roy Wimberley
1905–1991
Damie Meeks
1909–1985

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  • Dama Hambey in household of John M Hambey, "United States Census, 1930"

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World Events (8)

1910 · The BSA is Made

Age 1

Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.

1910 · The Mann Act

Age 1

This Act makes engaging in transport of any woman for any immoral purpose, prostitution, illegal. Its primary intent was to address prostitution, immorality, and human trafficking, particularly where trafficking was for the purposes of prostitution.

1929

Age 20

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

Name Meaning

English (Cambridgeshire): variant of Meek , with post-medieval excrescent -s. Compare Mix .

Dutch: patronymic from Meek 3.

History: Thomas Meeks (born c. 1624 in London) emigrated to New Haven, CT, in or before 1643. In 17th-century New Haven this surname was also spelled Meekes, Mix, and Mixx.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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