Brief Life History of Douglas Floyd
When Douglas Floyd Ricks was born on 26 September 1876, in Trigg, Kentucky, United States, his father, Jonathan Lafayette Ricks, was 44 and his mother, Mary Elise Sumner, was 38. He married Ida Pope on 13 April 1900, in Stewart, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Donaldson, Trigg, Kentucky, United States in 1920 and Magisterial District 6, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1930. He died on 9 December 1937, in Trigg, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Cadiz, Trigg, Kentucky, United States.
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- Dug F Ricks, "United States Census, 1930"
- D. F. Ricks, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Dug F. Ricks, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
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World Events (8)
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.
1892 · The Radio is invented
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Rick , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. See also Rickson .
English: topographic name from Middle English rixe, rexe (Old English rixe, a West Saxon metathesized form of Old English risc, rysc ‘rush’) wash. The surname probably originally denoted someone who lived where rushes grew, or it may be a habitational name from a place so named, such as Rix (Devon).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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