Brief Life History of Mamie Isabell
When Mamie Isabell Ledford was born on 21 June 1890, in Union, Georgia, United States, her father, Arthur Paul Ledford, was 21 and her mother, Alcedona Ensley, was 20. She married John Calvin Hood on 23 August 1908, in Union, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Gum Log, Union, Georgia, United States for about 30 years and Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America in 1981. She died on 28 January 1981, in Union, Georgia, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Ebenezer Cemetery, Union, Georgia, United States.
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- Mamie Hood, "United States 1950 Census"
- Mamie Ledford, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Mamie Ledford, "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1973"
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1893 · The Last Public Hanging in Georgia
The last public hanging in Georgia was on September 28, 1893. The General Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law, Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.
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.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name, probably from either of two places called Lydford, in Devon and Somerset. The first is named with the river name Lyd (from Old English hl̄de ‘noisy stream’) + Old English ford, i.e. ‘ford over the Lyd river’. Lydford in Somerset was named ‘ford over the noisy stream’, from Old English hl̄de + ford.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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