Brief Life History of Melissa Ann
When Melissa Ann Holman was born on 4 February 1897, in Robertson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Gilbert Scott Holman, was 44 and her mother, Lenora Ann Burr, was 39. She married Karle Wilson Glenn on 2 November 1920. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Adairville, Logan, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Cadiz, Trigg, Kentucky, United States in 1930. She died on 8 November 1986, in Clarksville, Montgomery, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Cadiz, Trigg, Kentucky, United States.
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- Malissa A Holman in household of Gilbert S Holman, "United States Census, 1910"
- Melissa Ann Holman, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Melissa Glenn, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1900 · Governor Shot
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
English (southern): topographic name for a ‘dweller in a hollow’, from hol + man (Old English holh + mann). Compare Holler and Hole .
Dutch: habitational name for someone from any of several locations named Hol, from Dutch hol ‘hollow’, or from Middle Dutch hole, heule ‘(low) arched bridge, weir’.
Dutch: from a pet form, formed with man ‘man’, of the personal name Holle, from an ancient Germanic compound name with the element hold ‘loyalty’, for instance Holdert, Hollebrand, Holger and Holmer. Compare Holleman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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