Hazel Caroline Best

Brief Life History of Hazel Caroline

When Hazel Caroline Best was born on 21 February 1904, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Michael Christopher Best, was 35 and her mother, Magnola A. McCulley, was 33. She married John Harrison Dodgen on 24 September 1920, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Pigeon Forge, Sevier, Tennessee, United States in 1940 and Sevier, Tennessee, United States in 1950. She died on 19 July 1978, in Gatlinburg, Sevier, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Little Cove Cemetery, Sevier, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Harrison Dodgen
1900–1960
Hazel Caroline Best
1904–1978
Marriage: 24 September 1920
Ruby Helen Dodgen
1921–1999
Eugene R Dodgen
1923–1985
Johnny Dodgen
1926–1986
Woodward M Dodgen
1926–1935
Gladys J Dodgen
1931–1988
James Walter Dodgen
1932–2001
Jimmy M Dodgen
1934–2009
Betty Fay Dodgen
1937–2011
Martha J Dodgen
1939–1999

Sources (18)

  • Etta M Dodgen, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Hazel Best, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Hazel Myers, "United States Social Security Death Index"

World Events (8)

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

1906 · Licencing Butchers

A law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat being sold as food, and ensures that the meat is slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English best(e) (Old English betst) ‘best, finest (person)’.

English, northern Irish, and French: nickname from Middle English best(e), Old French beste ‘beast, animal’ (especially those used for food or work), applied either as a metonymic occupational name for someone who looked after beasts, such as a herdsman, or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble an animal. Compare English Bester 1.

English: from a Middle English adverbial expression of the Best, but the meaning is unknown.

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

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