Brief Life History of Martha Louisa
When Martha Louisa Wooten was born on 14 September 1914, in Pitt, North Carolina, United States, her father, Joseph Ernest Wooten Sr., was 26 and her mother, Susan Sudie Tripp, was 26. She died on 7 June 1917, in Snow Hill, Greene, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 2, and was buried in May Family Cemetery, Maury, Greene, North Carolina, United States.
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- Martha Louisa Wooten, "North Carolina, Center for Health Statistics, Vital Records Unit, County Birth Records, 1913-1922"
- Martha Louisa Wooten, "North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930"
- Martha Louisa Wooten, "North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000"
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World Events (3)
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.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1917 · Joining the First World War
Starting with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, which killed 128 American citizens, and many other conflicts with trade from Germany. Congress held a special meeting that resulted in The United States declaring war on Germany. Formally entering the First World War.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English wid(u), wudu ‘wood’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, such as Wootton in Northamptonshire or Oxfordshire, Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire, Wotton in Surrey, and Wotton under Edge in Gloucestershire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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